Thirteen Bangladeshis including women and children were held from Putkhali frontier at Jessore-Benapole border for trying to enter India illegally.
Members of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) held them around 10pm on Saturday.
The arrested are Abdul Khaleque, Dhanaranjan, Komola Begum, Geeta Sarker, Kashi Das, his mother Monju Rani Das and sister Mala Rani Das, Munni Begum and her son Mahbub Alam, Zillur Rahman, Tumpa, Daisi and her son Papon.
They hailed from different districts of the country.