UNB, Benapole :
Twenty-seven Bangladeshis, including 26 teenage girls and a minor, returned home after languishing in Indian jail for a year and a half.
They went to India two years ago in search of work, said Abul Bashar, officer- in-charge of Benapole Check post Immigration Police. Indian police arrested them from Kolkata and a court jailed them for one and half year for crossing the border without valid documents. Indian Police handed them over to Benapole Immigration Police on Friday morning after they completed their sentences. Bashar said they hailed from Narail, Barishal and Bagerhat.
Twenty-seven Bangladeshis, including 26 teenage girls and a minor, returned home after languishing in Indian jail for a year and a half.
They went to India two years ago in search of work, said Abul Bashar, officer- in-charge of Benapole Check post Immigration Police. Indian police arrested them from Kolkata and a court jailed them for one and half year for crossing the border without valid documents. Indian Police handed them over to Benapole Immigration Police on Friday morning after they completed their sentences. Bashar said they hailed from Narail, Barishal and Bagerhat.
