Benapole Correspondent :
Twenty-four Bangladeshis, including 11 teenagers, returned home on Friday after languishing in Indian jail for two and a half years.
“They went to India in 2016, enticed by promises of good jobs,” said Abul Bashar, officer-in-charge of Benapole Checkpost Immigration Police.
Indian police arrested them when they were travelling to Bangalore and a court jailed them for two and half years for crossing border without valid documents.
They were handed over to Benapole Immigration Police after serving their sentences.
A case was filed against them and an Indian court sentence them two and half years’ imprisonment each for illegally crossing the border without valid documents.
The Indian government has returned them following the two countries of Home Ministry through letters several times.
Twenty-four Bangladeshis, including 11 teenagers, returned home on Friday after languishing in Indian jail for two and a half years.
“They went to India in 2016, enticed by promises of good jobs,” said Abul Bashar, officer-in-charge of Benapole Checkpost Immigration Police.
Indian police arrested them when they were travelling to Bangalore and a court jailed them for two and half years for crossing border without valid documents.
They were handed over to Benapole Immigration Police after serving their sentences.
A case was filed against them and an Indian court sentence them two and half years’ imprisonment each for illegally crossing the border without valid documents.
The Indian government has returned them following the two countries of Home Ministry through letters several times.
