57 fishermen return from Indian jail

Fifty-seven Bangladeshi fishermen returned home yesterday after serving four months in an Indian jail.

Members of Indian Border Security Force (BSF) handed over the fishermen and two fishing trawlers to their Bangladesh counterparts near the bank of the Kalindi River in Shyamnagar upazila of the district around 11:00am.

The returnees are from different upazilas of Patuakhali, Chittagong and Cox's Bazar districts.

Abdus Salam, one of the returnees of Cox's Bazar, said Indian coastguards detained them with two trawlers as they mistakenly entered the Indian maritime boundary amid dense fog on November 8, 2015.

The detainees were later produced in an Indian court that sent them to jail, Jasim Uddin, company commander of Koikhali border observation post (BoP) said, adding that the fishermen were released on expiry of their jail terms.