Benapole (Jessore), June 24 (UNB) – Forty-eight young women and a child who were trafficked to India four years back returned home today (Sunday).

Indian police handed the trafficking victims over to Bangladesh police at Benapole check post around noon.

Benapole check post immigration sources said human traffickers sent the gullible Bangladeshis to India in 2008 alluring them of good jobs there.

Mumbai police arrested them soon after they entered the city of the neighbouring country and later they landed in jail.

Rescue Foundation, a Mumbai-based human rights organisation, arranged their release and kept them at its own shelter home where they stayed for the last four years.

Rights Jessore, a local human rights body, contacted the home ministries of both the countries to bring the Bangladeshis back home.

Officer-in-charge of Benapole immigration police Kamruzzaman said the trafficking victims who hail from Barisal, Jamalpur, Dhaka and Khulna were brought back home through travel permits on the initiative of Rights Jessore.

He said they were handed over to their relatives after necessary formalities.