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Bangladeshi nationals, including women and children, returned home on Friday after serving prison sentences in India. | UNB photo

Twenty-two Bangladeshi nationals, including men, women and children, returned to the country through the Tamabil Land Port at Goainghat upazila in Sylhet on Friday afternoon after serving different terms of imprisonment in Indian jail over illegally entering that country.

Gowainghat police station officer-in-charge Sarkar Mohammad Tofail Ahmed confirmed the incident of deportation of the 22 Bangladeshis.


He said that the 22 Bangladeshi nationals were sent back to the country through the Tamabil Land Port immigration at about 4:45pm on the day in the presence of members of the Indian Border Security Force and Bangladesh Border Guard.

Quoting the returnees, the police official said that they had gone to India without legal documents in different times through different border points of Sylhet, Netrakona, Rajshahi, Sunamganj, Mymensingh, Bogura, Jashore and Jamalpur districts for jobs.

He said that the Indian BSF and police had produced them to court of that country after detaining them for illegally entering the country and the court had sentenced them to various terms of imprisonment.

‘After completing their terms in the Tura Jail at West Garo Hills district in Meghalaya state of India, they have returned to Bangladesh today [Friday],’ the police official told ¶¶Òõ¾«Æ· in the evening, adding that formalities were under way to hand over them to their respective families.