At least 178 Indian fishermen who were arrested from the Bangladesh territory in different times for illegal entry last year went back to their country on Thursday after their release from the district jail.
Sheikh Lutfur Rahman, officer-in-charge of Mongla police station, said river police in their different drives had arrested the 178 Indian fishermen along with 14 trawlers from Fair Way Buoy in Mongla upazila while they were catching fish in the Bay of Bengal last year.
They were handed over to police and separate cases were filed against them.
Later they were sent to the district jail.
Of them, Sanjay Samanta,35, a fisherman of ‘FB Laxmi-Narayan’ killed himself on September 22 last year by hanging himself with the ceiling of the toilet of the prison cell.
The fishermen hail from different areas of Kakdwip in South 24 Parganas district of India.
Meanwhile, Judge Sirajul Islam Gazi of the Bagerhat Judicial Magistrate Court following the investigation report submitted by police exonerated them from the charges brought against them on Tuesday.