C T Online Desk: A total of 13 Bangladeshi women, men and children, who were trafficked to India, returned home through Benapole on Monday morning after 2 years of imprisonment in a jail in the neighbouring country.
The Petrapole Immigration Police of India handed them over to the Benapole Immigration Police at 8am.
An NGO took them to their own shelter to hand them over to their families.
Benapole Immigration Police Officer-in-Charge Azharul Islam said that the human traffickers took them to Kolkata, India, two and a half years ago, promising to give them good jobs.
Later, the traffickers escaped after leaving them at Sealdah Railway Station in Kolkata. The police arrested them and the court sentenced them to 2 years in jail.
At the end of the sentence, they were sheltered by Rescue Foundation, a human rights organisation in Kolkata.
