More than 100 smuggled Bangladeshi women have been deported from India back to Bangladesh over the past week at checkpoints along the porous 460-kilometre border, a prominent body of local women lawyers said Tuesday.
The deportees had spent two years in Indian jails for illegally crossing the border into India, lured by offers of jobs and marriage by human traffickers, the National Women Lawyers Association said. A majority of the 105 women were handed over to the association by the Indian Border Security Force (BSF) at the Benapole checkpoint in Bangladesh.