Eight Bangladeshi teenagers returned home through Benapole Immigration check-post yesterday night after serving two years of jail term in India for illegal entry.

Indian police handed them over to the Benapole Immigration Police at 8:30 pm yesterday and later today Justice and Care, an NGO received them and handed them over to their families, reports our Benapole correspondent.The returnees hail from Narail, Jashore, and Khulna districts.

"A team of Indian police had arrested them from Mumbai for entering the country, illegally. Later an Indian court sentenced them to two years in prison," said Md Ahsan Habib, officer-in-charge of Benapole Immigration Police.

A gang of human traffickers took them to India through the Jashore border promising them lucrative jobs, said the OC.On completion of their jail term, they were kept at a shelter called Nobo Jibon there, Ahsan said.The Indian authorities returned them following repeated requests by the Bangladesh home ministry, sources here said.