Three Bangladeshi teenage girls and boys returned home through Benapole check post on Thursday night after serving one-year jail in India. BSF handed them over to Benapole BGB officials at about 9.00 pm.
The returnees were identified as Halima Khatun, 12, daughter of Jashim Uddin, Nupur Doly, 14, daughter of Deb Proshad, and Tahidul Sikder, 12, son of Nizam Sikder of Rajapur Village in Narail district.
Mohsin Khan, officer in-charge of Benapole check post immigration police, said that a team of Indian BSF had arrested them from Kolkatta for going there illegally.
A gang of human traffickers took them to India through Jashore border promising to arrange lucrative jobs, he said.
They were sent to a Kolkatta court which jailed them for one year. Later, they were kept at a Lalua shelter home there.
The Indian authorities returned them following repeated requests by the Bangladesh home ministry.
A special Indian police team on Thursday night brought them to BSF, later BSF handed them over to BGB sources here said.
