14 Bangladeshis return serving jail term in West Bengal

Benapole, 4 January: Fourteen  Bangladeshi nationals, including five children, returned home through Benapole check-post on Thursday night after languishing in an Indian jail for  one and a half years.

Tarikul Islam, officer-in-charge of Benapole Immigration police, said Petrapole Immigration police handed them over to their Bangladeshi counterparts around 9 pm.

The victims had entered India two years back without valid documents through a Jessore border point in search of jobs.

Indian police arrested them from Kolkata, West Bengal.

Later, the arrestees were produced before a local court when the court sentenced them to one and a half years’ imprisonment.

The process to bring them back started following a joint intervention by the home ministries of the two countries.

Motiar Rahman, a sub-inspector at Benapole Port Police Station, said police handed the returnees over to their respective families.