Benapole: Members of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) detained 85 Bangladeshis from Putkhali border while they were returning to country from India on Tuesday morning.

A total 16 minors, 29 women and 40 men were among the detainees, from different areas of Chittagong, Satkhira and Khulna districts.

Mohammad Abdul Jalil, company commander of Putkhali camp of BGB battalion‐21, said that on secret information a team of the border guards conducted the drive in the area in the morning and arrested them.

Sensing the presence of BGB, the human traffickers managed to flee away.

Later the detainees were handed over to Benapole Port Police Station.

A case was filed with the police station in this connection.

They went to India at different times looking for jobs there and had been staying in Delhi.