11 back from India after jail term

Eleven Bangladeshi construction workers have returned home from India upon completion of their two-and-half-year’s imprisonment in the neighbouring country. Indian police handed over the workers to the Bangladesh Immigration Police at Benapole check post on Sunday night. The returnees hail from different Upazilas of Satkhira and Rajshahi districts. Immigration police at the Benapole check post said the 11 workers had been arrested in India’s south-western city of Kerala for entering that country illegally. Officer-in-charge of the immigration police at Benapole check post Qamruzzaman said a team of Indian police had arrested the 11 construction workers in Kerala in November, 2011, while they were working in a building there. Afterwards, they were sent to Kerala Central Jail where they served 2-and-half-year term. Upon completion of the jail term, the workers were later kept in a shelter home, according to UNB.