Nine Bangladeshi freed by BSF

From The Dailystar Bangladesh
Monday, September 20, 2010 

Nine Bangladeshi citizens, including a woman and her two children, who had been kept in Indian jail for illegal intrusion in 2006, return the home country through the border at Dinajpur in Pirganj upazila of Thakurgaon district as BSF handed them over to BDR yesterday. PHOTO: KONGKON KARMAKER

Indian Border Security Force (BSF) yesterday handed over 9 Bangladeshi citizens, who were jailed in India for illegally crossing the border, to Bangladesh Rifles (BDR).

The handing over followed a deputy commander-level flag meeting at the Zero Line on Danajpur border under Pirganj upazila in Thakurgaon..

Deputy Commander of 2 Rifles Battalion MJ Iftekhar Ahamed led the Bangladeshi side while Deputy Commandant of 120, Royganj BSF Battalion led the Indian side. 

BDR sources said the nine returnees, including a woman and two children, were trafficked to India in 2006 through different borders of the district by brokers assuring them of giving better jobs. 

Indian police caught them and later all of them were jailed.

Of the nine returnees, Shudhir Barman, 35, son of Baifu Barman hailed from Milonpur village and Poben Shing,28, son of Pania Shing, his wife Asha Shing,25, their sons Poten Shing,7, and Shabuj Shing, 5, from Roypur village under sadar upazila, while Karim,37, son of Kamaluddin hailed from Fotehpur village, Islam,30, son of Mozammel from Kashua village and Obin Pal,61, son of late Mortupal from Haripur village under Baliadangi upazila and Jadab Barman,55, son of late Gondhu Barman from Mohendragaon village under Haripur upazila of the district.