6 return home after serving time in India

Six Bangladeshis, including two children, returned home from India through Benapole land port yesterday after serving two and a half years in jail on charges of illegal entry.

The six are members of two families from Bagerhat and Narayanganj.

The returnees -- two men, two women and two children -- are currently staying in a shelter run by Rights Jessore, an NGO working to prevent human trafficking.

They were taken to the shelter after the Indian police handed them over to the Benapole Immigration Police around 6:30am yesterday.

Abul Kalam Azad, officer-in-charge of Benapole Immigration Police, said human traffickers sent the Bangladeshis to India, promising them good jobs.

They had entered India through different borders and had to take odd jobs in Chennai from where the Indian police arrested them, the OC added.