7 Bangladeshis return home after languishing in Indian jail
Benapole: Seven Bangladeshis, including two women, returned home from India on Thursday after languishing in jail there for nearly two years.
Indian Border Security Force (BSF) handed them over to Bangladesh authorities through Benapole check post at night.
The returnees are Laboni Khatun, Marufa Khatun, Didar Ali, Rashed Mia, Sharif Ali, Rakib Hossain, and Sohel Mia.
Iqbal Hossain, officer-in-charge of Benapole check-post immigration police, said all the seven had gone to India illegally in search of job three years back. Later, they were arrested from Kolkata and sent to jail.
The decision to return them was taken following intervention of the home ministries of the two countries.