Seventeen more Bangladeshi Tabligh Jamaat members, including eight women, returned home last night after languishing in an Indian jail for 40 days.

Mohsin Khan, officer-in-charge of Benapole check-post Immigration Police, today said Indian immigration police handed them over to Bangladesh authorities through Benapole check-post around 11:30 pm yesterday.

All the returnees were sent to Gazir Dargah institutional quarantine in Jhikargachcha upazila of Jashore for 14 days, said Habibur Rahman, a medical officer of the health department of Benapole check-post.

The 17 Bangladeshis are residents of different areas including Mirpur of Dhaka, our Benapole correspondent reports, quoting the officer.

According to immigration police, 265 Tabligh Jamaat men went to India in February this year. They were staying there during the coronavirus outbreak.

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