20 trafficking Bangladeshi teenagers return from India
October 8, 2021
Bangladesh desk: A total 20 Bangladeshi teenagers, who were victims of human trafficking, returned to the country through the Benapole Land Port on Thursday night.
India’s Petrapole Immigration Police have handed over the youth to Benapole Immigration Police.
The returnees will be handed over to their families after 14-day institutional quarantine at Gazir Dargah in Jashore.
Mojibur Rahman, Officer-In-charge (OC) of Benapole Immigration Police, said they were trafficked by traffickers from different districts.
Justice and Care, a non-government organisation (NGO), has taken the returnees to its shelter home, he said.
ABM Muhit Hossain, senior programme officer of the NGO, said that the teenagers were lured by traffickers with promise of job opportunities and were trafficked to India.
Later, law enforcers in Kolkata arrested them during separate raids. They were then sentenced to two-year imprisonment by court and sent to jail.
An Indian NGO also provided them legal assistance to help them back to Bangladesh as per with necessary travel permits, according to him.
