Fifteen Bangladeshi, comprising nine women and six children, returned home through Benapole check post after serving two years in Indian jail.

Petrapole Immigration Police handed them over to Benapole Immigration Police around 10:30pm yesterday. Rights Jashore, a non-government organisation, took the returnees to their shelter home. They will be handed over to their respective families later in the day, said Ibrahim Ahmed, officer-in-charge of Benapole Immigration Police.

The returnees hail from different areas of Narail, Khulna and Sathkhira districts. Traffickers took them to Mumbai in India about two and a half years ago, promising work in exchange of money. On arrival, the traffickers abandoned them at the railway station in Mumbai and fled.

They were arrested by the railway police and sent to a court which sentenced them two years in prison.