Dhaka, Feb. 4 -- Nine Bangladeshi teenage girls returned to Bangladesh via the Benapole border on Friday after serving a two-year jail term in India.

They were handed over to Benapole Immigration Police through a special travel permit, said Abul Kalam Azad, officer-in-charge of Benapole check-post immigration police.

The returnees are--Akhi Khatun, 16, Priya Das, 18, Riya Biswas, 19, Shanti Das, 17, Mithu Begum,19, Sonia Akter, 18, Shirina Akter, 17, Bithi Khatun, 18 and Banu Khatun, 16, reports UNB.

They are residents of Dhaka, Narail, Satkhira and Patuakhali districts.

Sonia Akter, one of the returnees said they went to India through different borders in Jessore with help of brokers two and half years ago in search of work.

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