BSF hands over seven trafficked girls to BDR
Seven trafficked girls were handed over to BDR members by Indian Border Security Force (BSF) through Benapole check post on Tuesday evening and yesterday morning on expiry of their jail terms.
BDR sources said two girls -- Sumi Jol Das, 16, of Rangamati and Nisha Jesmin, 17, -- of Mymensingh district were taken to India by a gang of human traffickers alluring them of giving good jobs in 2006.
Later, Kolkata police arrested them and sent them to jail hajat.
A court sentenced them to four years imprisonment each for entering India illegally.
They were handed over to the border guards yesterday morning.
Another report said BSF handed over another five trafficked girls through Benapole check post on Tuesday evening.
The victims were identified as Shilpi Begum alias Vonita, 22, Munni Khanam alias Kajol, 20, Nasrin Sultana alias Sonia, 22, of Narail district, Khadiza Khatun alias Sabina, 23, of Khulna and Sirajum Munira alias Shila, 24, of Satkhira district.
BDR sources said the five girls were trafficked to Bombay by human traffickers and later arrested by Chennai Detective Branch of police in 2008.
All the seven girls were handed over to the BDR by BSF on completion of official formalities.
Later, BDR members handed them over to Benapole port police station.
In Satkhira, six people were held at Laxmidari border in Sadar upazila on charge of illegally going to India on Tuesday.
The arrestees were identified as Babul Gazi, Al-Amin Gazi, Al Amin's wife Rabeya Khatun and child Abdur Rahman, and Musa Sarder and Mujibor Sarder. They all hailed from different villages in Dakope upazila of Khulna.
A patrol team of BDR held them while they were illegally going to India at about 11 at night.
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