8 held while returning from India
Eight people were arrested while illegally entering the country through Boro Achra border on Sunday.
The arrestees are Ramiza Begum, 35, Shefali Begum, 32, Beauty Begum, 20, Mukta, 20, Khokon Sheikh, 45, Shimul Mia, 19, Israfil, 25, and Raju Mollah,35.
They hailed from different areas of Narail and Khulna districts, said police quoting the arrestees.
Sources said, acting on a tip-off, a team of BGB (formerly BDR) jawans raided the area and held the aforesaid people at noon while they were returning to the country through the border without any valid documents.
Ramiza Begum, one of the arrestees, said they were taken to India by an organised gang of traffickers two years ago promising to give better job there.
Meanwhile, a court in Satkhira on Wednesday last sentenced a man to suffer 10 years' rigorous imprisonment (RI) for trafficking his wife to India on January 10 in 2008.
Convict Azharul Islam Sana, 28, is son of Shawkat Ali Sana of Gobindapur village in Keshabpur upazila, Jessore, reports our correspondent.
The Women and Children Repression Prevention Court also fined the convict Tk 5000, in default, to suffer two months more RI.
The prosecution story, in brief, is that victim Rubiya Khatun, daughter of Atiar Rahman of Dhandia village in Tala upazila, got married with Sana on March 12 in 2003.
After marriage, Sana used to torture Rubiya for dowry. Being unable to bear it more, she came to her father's house in 2007.
On January 10, 2008, Sana brought back Rubiya to his house at Gobindapur.
On the same day, he trafficked her to India and sold her to a brothel at Pune in Maharastra, India.
Accusing Sana, Rubiya's father filed a case with Patkelghata police station on September 28, 2008.
In the meantime, Rubiya managed to flee from the brothel and came back to her father's house on October 30, 2008.
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