C T Online Desk: Twenty Bangladeshi nationals returned home from India on Tuesday as a result of a coordinated effort by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Deputy High Commission of Bangladesh in Kolkata and the Special Task Force on Anti-Trafficking of Women and Children in West Bengal, India.
The West Bengal government repatriated them at the Benapole border in Jashore at 4:30 pm, reads a press release.
During the repatriation, Deputy High Commission of Bangladesh in Kolkata’s Minister Counselor Sikder Mohammad Ashrafur Rahman, Director of South Asia Division of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Vidosh Chandra Barman, along with local upazila administration, police administration, upazila women and children affairs officers and BGB authorities were present.
These Bangladeshi women and children were detained in various safe homes in West Bengal during their entry and stay in India after being subjected to human trafficking and fraud at various times from Bangladesh.
Later, they were issued travel permits after verification of their citizenship in the joint initiative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ministry of Home Affairs and Deputy High Commission of Bangladesh in Kolkata with the cooperation of the West Bengal Government of India.
