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Thirty-three Bangladeshis have returned home through the Benapole check post after serving three years in jail in India.
They were handed over to the Bangladesh immigration authorities at Benapole on Sunday evening.
Officer-in-charge of Benapole Immigration Police, Syed Mortaza, said they went to India three years ago without valid documents to seek employment with the help of local brokers.
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, the Indian police handed them over to the 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.