Six Bangladeshi girls returned home through Benapole check post of Jessore district on Friday night after languishing for three years in a Indian jail.
The returnees were identified as Dolna Khatun, 17, Shapinur Khatun, 21, Rabeya Khatun, 22, Shahnara Khatun, 19, Parvin Akter, 20, and Dulna Begum.
All of them are residents of different places of the district.
Nayed Subedar M Abdullah, commander of Benapole check post Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) camp, said Border Security Force (BSF) of India handed over the Bangladeshi girls, who languished in a jail after their arrest for three years for intruding into the country, to the BGB there at night.
Quoting the returnees, the commander said human traffickers took the girls to Indian in January, 2010 promising them lucrative job and Mumbai police arrested them on charge of intrusion.
They were later produced before a court that sent them to an Indian jail.
The decision of their release came following a joint intervention of the home ministries of India and Bangladesh. -UNB, Benapole
