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New Age, Dhaka, Bangladesh
Saturday, February 10, 2007
11 Bangladeshi girls trafficked to India return
United News of Bangladesh . Benapole
Eleven Bangladeshi girls, who were trafficked to India three to four
years back, returned home on Friday.
Sources said the Indian police with the help of their border guards
handed over the girls to Bangladesh immigration authorities at
Benapole land port.
Police sources said the girls would be kept at a shelter home of
the Bangladesh National Women Lawyers' Association at Sher-e-Bangla
Nagar in the capital before handing them over to their families.
The Indian police had detained them from different parts of the
country.
Later, they were produced in Indian courts, which sent them to safe
custody. Later, Sanglap, a human rights organisation, took them to
their shelter home.
The decision to send back the girls was taken after two NGOs from
Bangladesh and India contacted the home ministries of the two
countries, police sources said.
The girls were identified as Razia Khatun of Shakharagati village
in Jessore, Rehena Khatun and her sister Reshma Khatun of Beri
Narayanpur village in Jessore, Ranjita Khatun alias Rangila of Gogar
Rudrapur village in Benapole, Rozina Khatun and Sufia Khatun of
Kalikapur village in Satkhira, Sabina Khatun of Dhanadia village in
Satkhira, Tania of Bhadli village in Satkhira, Kakoli Biswas of Baro
Gabua village in Patuakhali, Sabina Akhter of Hoaikang Amtali village
in Cox's Bazar and Kohinur of Khilgaon in capital Dhaka