Twenty-four Bangladeshi nationals, including 11 women, returned home through Benapole check post on Wednesday night and handed over to Bangladesh immigration authorities.

They returned home after serving two years in jail in India.

Benapole Immigration Police officer in-charge Imtiaz Ahsanul Kader Bhuiya said that the 24 people, from different parts of Narail, Chittagong, Thakurgaon, Cumilla, Gopalganj, Tangail, Cox`s Bazar and Patuakhali districts, went to India without valid documents in search of jobs with the help of local brokers two years back.

Kolkata police arrested them and a court sentenced them to two years imprisonment each for trespassing into the country.

After the end of the jail term, Indian police handed them over to Benapole check post immigration police at night.

Benapole police later handed them over to a representative of a human rights organisation in Jashore to send them back to their respective families.