49 trafficked women return home
Forty-nine young women, who were trafficked to India, returned home through Benapole border yesterday after staying 4 years at a shelter home there.
Indian police handed them over to Benapole police check-post in the afternoon.
A child also returned with them. All of them hailed from Barisal, Jamalpur, Dhaka and Khulna districts.
Benapole immigration police in-charge Qamruzzaman said, a group of human traffickers took them to India on Jan 4, 2008 in the name of giving them good jobs there.
Later, Indian police arrested them at Mumbai rail station and sent them to jail. Mumbai based human rights organigation Rescue Foundation freed them from jail after 6 months and sent them to a shelter home.
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