UNB, Benapole :
At least 34 Bangladeshi women and a child have returned home from India after serving three years’ jail term for illegal stay in that country after intrusion.
The Indian authorities handed over the 34 women and a child to the Bangladesh authorities at Benapole check post on Wednesday night.
The returnees hail from Benapole, Chapainawabganj, Dhaka, Bandarban, Dinajpur, Jessore, Khulna, Mymensingh, Narail, Satkhira, Pabna, Shariatpur and Noakhali districts.
Maniruzzaman, officer-in-charge of Benapole check post police immigration, said in 2011, a team of Indian police had arrested them from Mumbai.
Afterwards, they were sent to Mumbai jail where they were awarded three years’ jail term.
Upon completion of the jail term, they were later kept in different shelter centres.
The Indian government has returned them following repeated requests the Bangladesh home ministry made by sending several letters.
They were sent back to Bangladesh through a special representative of the Indian government.
