5 Bangladeshis cheated, held in India
FE Report | Monday, 28 March 2011
FE Report
Five Bangladeshi workers allegedly cheated by manpower business middlemen are now passing days in Cooch Behar jail of West Bengal in India. The five Bangladeshis-Md. Zakir, Md. Salim, Md. Habib, Md Mokbul and Zakir (Demra) were arrested by West Bengal police while trying to cross the Indian border via Nepal without valid documents. According to a source of Dhaka-based IMA (International Migrant Alliance) Research Foundation, Bangladesh, the ill-fated Bangladeshi nationals paid money to a middlemen for getting jobs in foreign countries in October of 2010. "Subsequently they left Bangladesh and entered Nepal on their way to another foreign country at the end of November of last year, but were robbed of money, passport and documents there," the source in the IMA Research Foundation, a migrant's organization told The FE Friday.
Five Bangladeshi workers allegedly cheated by manpower business middlemen are now passing days in Cooch Behar jail of West Bengal in India. The five Bangladeshis-Md. Zakir, Md. Salim, Md. Habib, Md Mokbul and Zakir (Demra) were arrested by West Bengal police while trying to cross the Indian border via Nepal without valid documents. According to a source of Dhaka-based IMA (International Migrant Alliance) Research Foundation, Bangladesh, the ill-fated Bangladeshi nationals paid money to a middlemen for getting jobs in foreign countries in October of 2010. "Subsequently they left Bangladesh and entered Nepal on their way to another foreign country at the end of November of last year, but were robbed of money, passport and documents there," the source in the IMA Research Foundation, a migrant's organization told The FE Friday.