Five teenagers return home after serving in Indian jail

Five Bangladeshi teenagers, including a girl, returned home from India through Benapole border on Sunday night after serving two years in an Indian prison.

Indian Border Security Force (BSF) handed them over to their Bangladeshi counterparts through Benapole check post.

Nazrul Islam, commander of Benapole check post BGB camp, said the five teenagers illegally entered India about two and a half years ago in search of good jobs.

Indian police arrested them from different areas of Kolkata in the Indian state of West Bengal for entering the country without necessary documents.

They later produced the arrestees before an Indian court that sent them to jail, the BGB commander said.

Sub-Inspector Motiar Rahman of Benapole Port Police Station said the four boys and the girl were handed over to their respective families the same night.