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A Bangladeshi couple, sentenced to five years in prison for illegal migration to India, returned home through the Benapole check post on Sunday, authorities said. The returnees are Md. Rashid Sheikh, 40, and his wife Jhorna Khatun, 32, from Mallik Para village in Jhikargachha upazila of Jashore. The Petrapole immigration police handed them over to the Benapole Immigration Police on Sunday evening through a special travel permit issued by the Indian government. Bangladeshi, Indian civilians face off along Chapainawabganj border Imtiaz Bhuiyan, officer-in-charge (OC) of Benapole Immigration Police, said they were handed over to the Benapole Port Police Station after due procedures. From there, an NGO called Rights Jessore will receive them and hand them over to their families, he added. Md. Jawadul Karim, Psychosocial Counsellor at Rights Jessore, said the couple had illegally crossed into India through the Chaugachha border in Jashore in March 2018 in search of better job opportunities. They found work in a vegetable shop in Gujarat but were arrested by Indian police in January 2020. Later, they were sentenced to five years in prison and sent to Gujarat Central Jail. After completing their sentence, the couple was placed in a shelter run by an Indian NGO. BGB detains 2 Indian nationals with smuggled goods With support from the embassies of both countries, the couple returned to Bangladesh on Sunday evening. Rights Jessore has confirmed that the couple will stay at their shelter home before being safely handed over to their families.

Indian lawmaker and senior member of the Congress Party Shashi Tharoor thanked a young Bangladeshi couple for helping him get a cab from outside the British Library in London ending his 45-minute wait. In a tweet on June 12, Shashi Tharoor wrote, “Waited 45 minutes outside @britishlibrary for a cab as Saturday-night traffic whizzed by. A helpful young Bangladeshi couple, out celebrating their first wedding anniversary, stopped by for a pic & solved my problem by summoning an @Uber. Thanks Irfat & Azmain! A total of 8,604 followers liked the tweet while 325 retweeted. Also Read: India's top court stays arrest of Congress MP Shashi Tharoor Born in London, UK, and raised in India, Tharoor worked across the world, graduating from St. Stephen's College, Delhi in 1975 and culminated his studies in 1978 with a doctorate in International Relations and Affairs from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University. He was formerly Under-Secretary General of the United Nations and ran for the post of Secretary-General in 2006.