At least eight Bangladeshi citizens have returned to home from India after languishing in a jail there for one and a half years on charge of trespass.
Indian Petrapole Immigration Police handed over them to the Bangladeshi authorities via Benapole check post on Friday afternoon and finally members of Bangladesh Women Lawyers’ Association received the victims.
The returnees are Habibur Rahman, 15, son of Shamsul Haque of Fatullah in Narayanganj; Krishna Khan, 14, son of Harish Khan of Kalibazar in Narsingdi district; Reajul Sheikh, 14, son of Faruk Hossain of Morelganj in Bagerhat district; Sabuj Sujon, 13, son of Mohonpur upazila in Rajshahi district; Reba Rani, 25, Usha Rani,
23, Sujata Sarkar, 23, of Satkhira district and Hawa Begum, 35 of Khulna district.
Benapole immigration police OC Aslam Hossain said the eight had intruded into India in search of job and Indian police arrested them from Kolkata railway station.
And a local court sent them to jail for the period for intrusion.
Legal Aids and Training Centre, a legal service provider, freed them from the jail and gave a shelter in a house.
A decision of their bringing back was adopted in a meeting of home ministries from both countries.
