Dhaka, May 12 -- A group of 78 "Bengali-speaking" people who were pushed across the border into Bangladesh by India's Border Security Force (BSF) and left on a shoal in Satkhira have described being subjected to "inhumane treatment" until they were released near the western edge of the Sundarbans.

Claiming they had travelled to Gujarat from Bangladesh for work at different times, they say local police detained them on Apr 26 and "beat them up" and treated them cruelly.

The group was rescued by the Forest Department from the Mandarbaria shoals in Shyamnagar Upazila and later handed over to the local police station by the Coast Guard.

On Sunday afternoon, the Coast Guard transported them from Mandarbaria to the Mongla Camp. That night, t...