Benapole, Aug 31 Fifty Bangladeshi nationals have returned to their homeland after spending five years in different jails of India for entering the neighbouring country illegally. They had sneaked into the country through the Benapole land port. They were caught in India's Kashmir, near the border, while on their way to Pakistan.
Benapole Immigration police OC Mohammad Kamruzzaman told bdnews24.com of the returnees, 41 are males, four females and five are children.
"They were caught at the Kashmir border on their way to Pakistan. They were heading there without proper documents hoping to get some good job," he said.
Most of these people are from Sunamganj, Dhaka, Cox's Bazar, Bandarban, Chandpur, Chittagong, Habiganj, Narayanganj and Feni districts. They served four to five years in various prisons of Kashmir.
One of the fifty, Badsha Mia Kalu of Feni, told reporters, "We went to India four years ago hoping for better jobs."
He said each of them paid Tk 20,000 to the traffickers to get them to Pakistan through roads via India. "But we were caught on our way."
Badsha said the Indian police tortured them after they were arrested. Then the court sent them to jail.
The Bangladesh Women Lawyers Association received the returnees at Benapole.
Association's Jessore branch Coordinator Nasima Khatun told bdnews24.com: "They will be kept at a shelter home for now. They will be sent to their families following official procedure."
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