Seventeen members of Bangladeshi Tablig Jamaat, including eight women, have returned from India through the Benapole Checkpost after serving four months jail in India.   Indian immigration police of Petrapole handed them over to Benapole Checkpost immigration police around 11:30pm on Sunday.   The returnees hail from different districts and Mirpur of Dhaka. They have been kept at institutional quarantine in Gazir Dorgah of Jhikargaccha upazila in the Jashore district, said Ashrafuzzaman, medical officer of Benapole Checkpost Immigration Health department.   Mohosin Khan, officer-in-charge of Benapole Checkpost immigration police, said that some 265 followers of Tablig Jamaat from different areas of Bangladesh went to India in February this year.

A man who recently attended an event of Tablig Jamaat  has tested positive for coronavirus at Tashura village in Nawabganj upazila.   Nawabganj Upazila Health Complex  medical officer  Dr Hargobinda Sarkar Anup said  samples of three people were collected from the upazila on Wednesday and those were sent to IEDCR for coronavirus test.   After getting the medical test report, it was  found that the man, a resident of Babuganj area of the upazila who  returned from Tablig, was infected with the virus.   He was sent to Bangladesh Kuwait Friendship Hospital, he said.   Besides, a Saudi returnee in Baha union tested positive for coronavirus few days ago and he along with his family was asked to maintain home-quarantine.