After sleepless nights, some Hindus return to Bangladesh with trepidation | India Information

PETRAPOLE: Tapan Kumar Das and his mom, who had arrived in Kolkata on Aug 4 for his medical remedy, had been spending sleepless nights, fearing their home again in Bangladesh may need been vandalised or looted since they left.
On Friday, because the mom and son had been strolling throughout the Petrapole border In Bengal, Tapan stopped on the checkpoint and requested BSF officers if he could be allowed to return to Bengal anytime quickly in case of a medical emergency.
It was with each trepidation and hope of their hearts that the duo, and quite a lot of different Bangladeshi nationals, a lot of them Hindus, returned dwelling, hours after an interim govt was sworn-in on Thursday night within the violence-ravaged neighbouring nation. “I informed a BSF officer on the border that I had a medical visa and needed to make sure that I’d be capable of return to India in case of a necessity,” Das informed TOI.
Whereas many Bangladeshis believed it was now secure to return dwelling, some stated they had been left with no different possibility as their visas had been about to run out. Their information that police had been again on the streets of Bangladesh and that almost all modes of transport had resumed providers gave them the boldness to return.