3 trafficked boys reunite with parents after years

Three teenage boys, earlier trafficked to India, returned to the country and reunited with their parents at Hili land port in Hakimpur upazila under the district yesterday. 

Indian immigration officials handed over the three boys -- Monir Khan, 16, of Narayanganj, Akramuddin, 17, of Joypurhat, and Nipun Mondal, 16, of Brahmanbaria to Md Rafiquzzaman, officer in charge (OC-Immigration) of Hili yesterday noon.

Delhi police rescued Monir Khan, then an eight-year-old boy, from a trafficking gang in 2006, said Suruj Das, co-coordinator of Suvayon Home, a correction centre in Balurghat of West Bengal.

"The panicked boy was kept in an observation centre in Delhi following a court order. Later he was sent to Suvayon Home. After a long wait, we have been able to find out Monir's parents," he said.

Monir's father Md Shahjahan Khan, hailing from Postkula village under Kadamtoli upazila in Narayanganj, thanked the governments of both the counties for arranging return of his son.

Akramuddin and Nipun Mondal were also handed over to their parents yesterday, said Hili Immigration OC Rafiquzzaman.

The two boys had been arrested by Dakkhin Dinajpur police in 2012 and 2013 respectively and subsequently sent to Suvayon Home following court directives, he said.