Dhaka, Wednesday, Jul 22, 2026
A man from Sunamganj has returned to Bangladesh through the Sheola Land Port in Sylhet after serving a prison sentence in India, nearly four years after he went missing, officials said on Thursday.Md Zakir Hossain, 34, son of Md Abdul Mannan of Kalikapur village in Doarabazar upazila of Sunamganj, was handed over to the Bangladeshi authorities by India's Border Security Force (BSF) through the Sheola Immigration Check Post in Beanibazar at around 10 am.According to his family, Zakir had been suffering from mental health issues before he went missing in mid-2021.Family members said they searched extensively for him in different places after his disappearance but failed to trace him. Having exhausted all efforts, they eventually lost hope of finding him.About a year after he went missing, the family learned through a local human rights activist in India that Zakir was being held in Silchar jail.With the assistance of the rights ...
