The New Nation - Internet Edition

UNB, Benapole

Fifty-six Bangladeshi nationals, who went to India in search of good jobs, returned home Tuesday after serving two years imprisonment in Indian jail.

Indian Border Security Force (BSF) handed over them to BDR and immigration police through Benapole border in the evening.

Of the returnees, 54 were from Satkhira and one each from Sylhet and Dinajpur districts.

Police said the Bangladeshis went to India through brokers two years back in search of lucrative job there. Later, they were detained by Indian police and sent to Domdom jail.

Bangladesh Women Lawyers Association undertook measures for their release.

Following the hand over, two officials of the association formally received the Bangladeshis from the port thana.