Pune: Rooms at the place of police station in Pune Maharashtra City have become temporary shelters for Bangladesh couples, who are very waiting to return to their home countries and reunite with their three children, which they left to look for a livelihood in India.
The couple had spent more than two years in prison for entering the country illegally, and the court had ordered the police to make the settings needed to send them back home, an official said on Tuesday.
Speaking to PTI, the couple said an agent had taken them to Pune from Bangladesh in February 2019, with an appointment to get their work with the company.
However, they experienced a rough surprise, when the woman was asked to work in a red light area in Budhwar Peth.
“When I opposed and refused to work in the area, the agent made my husband arrested, because we both did not have a valid passport or visa.
After I somehow managed to escape the place and reach the police station, I was also arrested for entering the country Without a valid document, “The woman told me.
The court then sentenced the couple and sentenced them two years and three months in prison.
“The agent takes us here promises work in a company.
If we know that we will get a problem here, we will not cross the border without a passport and a visa.
Agent, which has brought us here, made us captured.
But after spending more From two years in prison, we now want to return to our country and along with our children, “said the woman.
Inspector Rajendra Labengparatian Police Office Farakshana said the couple, came from the Satchira district in Bangladesh, has been arrested and charged under the relevant section of the Foreign Act and passport law.
“After their release, the court ordered the police to make the settings needed to send a partner back to their country.
While we tried to contact the Bangladesh Embassy through a special branch of Pune Policy, for two months since the couple was given accommodation in the police station,” said the official .
Police personnel have taken care of the needs of the couple by providing food and other daily essence.
“On the occasion of Bakri Eid, we even gave them a set of new clothes and they celebrated the festival with our staff,” Landage said, adding that the Bangladesh embassy was told about the couple, but the police had not heard them.