TDS Desk:

Fifteen Bangladeshi victims of human trafficking have returned to the country after serving two years in Indian jails.

Nine of the victims are women and the rest are children.

The returnees have been placed under the care of a non-profit and would be handed over to their respective families shortly, Benapole Immigration Police told reporters Saturday. The Indian immigration police had handed them over at the border, a day earlier.

Human traffickers took them to Mumbai over two years ago and abandoned them. Police later found the group of women and children, and produced them before the court, which sentenced them to two years in prison likely for alleged trespassing.