Thirty-three Bangladeshis have returned home through Benapole check post after serving three years in jail in India.

They were handed over to Bangladesh immigration authorities at Benapole on Sunday evening.

Officer in-charge  of Benapole Immigration Police, Syed Mortaza, said they went to India without valid documents in search of jobs with the help of local brokers three years back.

Kolkata police arrested them and a court sentenced them to three 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.

Benapole police later handed them over to a representative of a human rights organisation in Jashore to send them back to their respective families.

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