Four teenagers return after serving jail term in India

Four Bangladeshi teenagers yesterday returned home from India, where they had been jailed for one and a half years for illegally entering the country.

Indian police handed them over to Benapole Immigration Police through Benapole Check-Post around 1:30pm yesterday noon.

All the returnees hail from different areas of Narail and Khulna.

Officer in Charge (OC) of Benapole Immigration Police Mohammad Mohsin Ali said a team of Indian police arrested the four from the Indian city of Goa for entering the country without valid documents over one and a half years ago.

They were later produced before a Goa court that jailed them for one and half years.

The OC quoted the returnees as saying that a gang of human traffickers lured them to India promising to give them good jobs there.

The returnees were handed over to their respective families later in the day, the OC added.