19 BD youths jailed in India for 2- yr, back home

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Benapole Correspondent :
Some 19 Bangladeshi youths returned home through Benapole check post on Thursday) night after serving two years jail in India.
Indian police handed them over to Benapole immigration police at 9.00 pm. The arrestee were hail from Narail , Dinajpur and Khulna districts.
Mohsin Hossain Khan , officer in-charge of Benapole check post immigration police, said a team of Indian police had arrested them from Tamilnadu city before two years back for going there illegally.
A gang of human traffickers took them to India through Jessore border promising to arrange lucrative jobs, two and half year ago he said. They were sent to a Tamilnadu court which jailed them for two years.
Later, on completion of the jail term, they were kept at a Lalua shelter home there.
The Indian authorities returned them following repeated requests by the Bangladesh home ministry.
A special Indian police team on Thursday night brought them to Bangladesh, sources here said.
Indian immigration police later handed them over to Benapole immigration police at about 10:30pm.

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