Barishal Correspondent :
Bangladesh Navy has detained 16 Indian fishermen including trawler FBM Tripura Sundari from the southern Bay of Bengal estuary, about 35 km from Payra Fair Buoy of Payra Sea Port for violating marine territory.
On Wednesday evening, the fishermen along with the detained Indian trawler were brought to the Payra Bandar Naval Police outpost.
The arrested fishermen are trawler skipper Harlal Das (50), Bitish Das (48), Pankaj Das (26), Raja Das (22), Swapan Das (48), Jagbandhu Das (62), Apan Das (60), and Hriday Das. (27), Deepak Das (30), Sunil Das (47), Jai Hari Das (45), Satya Lal Das (25), Ranjit Dey (24) , Gopal Pal (39), Haridas (32) and Samar Das (50).
The homes of the detained Indian fishermen are in different police stations of Nadia district under 24 Pargana of West Bengal.
Payra Port Naval Police Outpost Inspector Mominur Rahman said the arrested Indian fishermen will be handed over to Kalapara police station.
As of writing this report, the process of handing over the detained Indian fishermen to Kalapara Police Station and filing a case was going on.
Bangladesh Navy members said that on Tuesday night, when the Navy members patrolled the deep sea with the ship BNS Gomti of Mongla zone.
