Benapole: Three Bangladeshi women and four teenagers returned home through Benapole check post on Tuesday night after serving three years’ jail in an Indian prison.

The returnees are, Shahanara Khatun, Firoza Khatun, Fatima Khatun, Palash Hossain, Sujon Miah, Alok Sarkar, and Joychandra Sheel. They hail from different areas of Satkhira, Comilla and Sunamganj districts.

Police said the returnees went to India illegally in search of jobs three years back.

Indian police arrested them from a house in Kolkata.

Afterwards, they served three years’ in an Indian prison.

Upon completion of the jail term, they were kept in a Kolkata’s shelter home.

Later, Indian immigration police handed them over to Benapole immigration police on Tuesday night.