A total of seven Bangladeshi youths returned home through Benapole check post on Tuesday night after serving two years jail term in India. The arrestees hailed from Narail, Jashore and Khulna districts. Indian police handed them over to Benapole immigration police at about 8.30 pm.
Khorshed Alom , officer in-charge of Benapole check post immigration police, said that a team of Indian police had arrested them from Karala city for going there illegally. A gang of human traffickers took them to India through Jashore border promising to arrange lucrative jobs, two and half year ago. They were sent to a Karala court which jailed them for two years. Later, on completion of the jail term, they were kept at a Lalua shelter home there.
The Indian authorities returned them following repeated requests by the Bangladesh home ministry. A special Indian police team on Tuesday night brought them to Bangladesh, sources here said.
Indian immigration police later handed them over to Benapole immigration police at about 8:30pm. Later Benapole Port thana police handed them over to their respective family.