The New Nation - Internet Edition

UNB, Benapole

Seven Bangladeshi teenaged girls, freed from Indian jail, returned home Sunday after one and half years.

They are Jahanara Khatun Putul, 16, Mina Khatun, 15, Champa Khatun, 18, Setara Begum, 19, Shampa Parveen, 17, Safari, 16, and Rita, 17.

Of them, Putul and Mina hailed from Sharsha upazila while Setara, Shamapa, Safari and Rati from Narail and Rita from Kalia upazila of Bogra.

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

Police said the girls were smuggled out to Indian through different border areas with a false assurance of lucrative job there. They were detained by Indian police and sent to jail hajat.

A Kolkata based NGO, Sanglap, and Jatiya Mahila Ainjibi Samity of Bangladesh took initiative for their release.