Benapole Correspondent
14 Bangladeshi Tablig Jamaat men out of 275 returned home through Beanpole check post on Friday night after serving jail sentence for 40 days in India.
Indian police handed them over to Benapole immigration police at 11.30 pm. Everyone who returned home was a passport holder. The returnees hailed from different districts of the country including Dhaka.
On Saturday, they were kept in the official home quarantine at Gazir Dargah in Jhikargachha Upazila of Jashore district for 14 days.
According to the immigration police sources, in February this year, 265 Tableage Jamaat activists from different parts of Bangladesh went to India with passports. They stayed in Delhi at the time of the Corona outbreak in India.
Tableage Jamaat members have been accused of spreading the Corona virus in India. Later, the police arrested them at the end of March and sent them to the central jail in Uttar Pradesh.
The court sentenced them to 40 days. After the expiration of the sentence, the two countries high offi
Benapole Check post Immigration Officer-in-Charge (OC) Mahasin Uddin said, India handed over 14 Bangladeshi members of Tableage Jamaat men who were detained in India. Returning Tablig members are sent to the Immigration Medical Office to check corona virus. They will take the necessary steps at the end of the health examination.
Habibur Rahman, medical officer of the health department of the Benapole check post immigration, said the returning Tableague Jamaat members were initially given a physical examination. Since they have been in Indian jails for a long time, they have been kept in official quarantine under government supervision for 14 days.
