Twenty-four Bangladeshis, including 11 women, have returned home through Benapole check post after serving two years in jail in India. They were handed over to Bangladesh immigration authorities at Benapole yesterday night, said Bangladesh police  today. Benapole Immigration Police officer in-charge said they went to India without valid documents in search of jobs with the help of local brokers two years back.

Kolkata police had arrested them and a court sentenced them to two years imprisonment each for trespassing into the country. After the end of the jail term, Indian police handed them over to Benapole check post immigration police, reports United News of Bangladesh (UNB). Benapole police later handed them over to a representative of a human rights organisation in Jessore to send them back to their respective families.