Boy, 5, Released From Bangladesh Jail

By M. Saraswathi DELHI (India), April 29 (Bernama) -- A five-year-old Indian boy who spent nearly a year in a Bangladesh jail, along with his grandparents, was released on Sunday. Ariful Sheikh, from West Bengal, was reunited with his parents after the Bangladesh Border Guards handed him and his grandparents to the Indian Border Security Force (BSF) at the Gede checkpost on the Indo-Bangladesh border on Sunday morning. The BSF handed them over to Murshidabad police, Press Trust of India reported, quoting BSF sources. Ariful, grandfather Hachimuddin Sheikh and grandmother Mafroza Khatun had gone to Bangladesh, apparently to see his ailing great grandmother and were apprehended in April last year. They were sentenced by a judicial magistrate's court in Kushthia to two months in prison and ordered to be repatriated to India, but languished in jail even after their prison term was over. Ariful's parents said they were happy that he was finally freed. -- BERNAMA