UNB, Bagerhat :
A court here on Friday sent 14 Indian fishermen, who were arrested from the Fairway buoy area of the Bay of Bengal on Thursday, to jail.
The court of the Chief Judicial Magistrate passed the order when police produced them before the court.
Earlier on Thursday, members of Bangladesh Navy in a drive detained the 14 Indian fishermen along with a trawler from the Fairway buoy area for trespassing on the Bangladesh water territory.
The Navy members later handed the detainees over to Mongla Police Station where a case was filed against them.
The arrestees hail from different areas of 24 Parganas district in West Bengal, India.
Talking to reporters under the custody at Mongla Police Station, the arrested fishermen claimed they mistakenly entered the Bangladesh territory in the Bay of Bengal.
However, Bangladesh Navy members as well as Bangladeshi fishermen frequenting buoy area noted that a good number of Indian fishermen frequently intrude into the Bangladesh territory for netting hilsa.
