Altogether 135 fishermen returned home in West Bengal's South 24 Parganas district after spending more than a year in a jail in neighbouring Bangladesh, their union has said.
Due to strong currents in the Bay of Bengal, eight trawlers with these fishermen on board entered the Bangladeshi waters in June last year.
Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) intercepted them and handed them over to the local police at Mongla Port in Khulna, said Satinath Patra, the secretary of Sundarban Saamudrik Matsyajibi Sramik Union.
