50 returned by India on expiry of 4-year jail
Indian authorities yesterday returned 50 Bangladeshis to the immigration police at the land port on expiry of their four-year jail term in the neighbouring country.
Md. Kamruzzaman, officer in-charge of Benapole immigration police, said 41 men, four women and five children were held in a Kashmir bordering area when they were going to Pakistan for job.
In 2008, a manpower agent took Tk 20,000 from each of them, promising to send them to Pakistan by road through India, the victims said.
When they reached Jammu they were held by police from a place near Pakistan border. Later they were convicted and imprisoned for four years in a Jammu jail.
The returnees hailing from Feni, Cox's Bazar and Sylhet districts were sent to their village homes yesterday.
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