Benapole Correspondent
2 Bangladeshi minor children returned home through Benapole check post on Saturday night after serving two years jail in Indian shelter home.
Indian BSF and police handed them over to Benapole BGB and immigration police at 10.00 pm.
The returnees minor children were identified as Naeem, 10 and Raihan 12 son of Masum Billah of Balipara village in Indurkani upazila of Pirojpur district.
Mohsin Hossain , officer in-charge of Benapole check post immigration police, said a team of Indian police had arrested the children with their mother Rexona Bagume from Kolkatta city for going there illegally on 12 January 2017.
A gang of human traffickers took them to India through Jessore border promising to arrange lucrative jobs, two and half year ago he said. They were sent to a Kolkatta court which jailed them for two years.
Later, on completion of the jail term, the children sent to Barasat Kisaloy Children home and mother rexona was kept at a Lalua shelter home there.
The Indian authorities returned them following repeated requests by the Bangladesh home ministry.
A special Indian BSF and police team on Saturday night brought them to Bangladesh, sources here said.
Later Indian immigration police handed them over to Benapole immigration police at about 10:00pm.
Mamun Khan, officer in charge, Benapole Port Police station said that the returned children were handed over to their father Masum Billah. Legal action will be taken if they can identify the traffickers, he