4 women return after serving 2-yr jail term in India

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UNB, Jessore :
Four Bangladeshi women returned home through Benapole check-post on Friday after languishing for two years in an Indian prison.
The returnees were identified as Ferdousi Begum, 23, Rima Sheikh, 15, Asma Khatun, 15, and Dipika Rani, 17.
The victims hail from different areas of Comilla, Bagerhat, Narail and Jhenidah districts.
Iqbal Ahmed, officer-in-charge of Benapole Checkpost Immigration, said the arrestees had gone to India illegally in search of jobs two years back, and Indian police arrested them from Kolkata town.
Afterwards, they were sent to jail by a court to serve a two-year jail term each.
On completion of the jail term, they were kept in Songlap Shelter Home.
Later, Indian immigration police handed over the four Bangladeshis to Benapole immigration police around 4.00pm.
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