BENAPOLE, Aug 08: Fourteen Bangladeshi Tabligh Jamaat men out of 265 returned home through Benapole check post on Friday night after serving 40 days' jail term in India.
Indian police handed them over to Benapole immigration police at 11.30 pm.
All the returnees, who hail from different districts of the country including Dhaka, were passport holders.
On Saturday, they were kept in a 14-day official quarantine at Gazir Dargah in Jhikargachha Upazila of Jashore district.
According to the immigration police sources, in February this year, 265 Tabligh Jamaat activists from different parts of Bangladesh went to India with passports. They were staying in Delhi at that time when coronavrious just broke out in India.
The Tabligh Jamaat men then faced the allegation of transmitting coronavirus in India.
On that charge, the police arrested them at the end of March and sent them to the central jail in Uttar Pradesh.
The court sentenced them to 40 days' imprisonment. After the expiry of their jail tem, high officials of the two neighbouring countries reached a decision of sending them back home.
Benapole Checkpost Immigration Officer-in-Charge (OC) Mahasin Uddin said India has handed over 14 Bangladeshi Tabligh Jamaat men who served jail term in that country.
The returnee Tabligh Jamaat men were sent to the Immigration Medical Office to conduct coronavirus tests. And necessary steps will be taken at the end of the health examination.
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