The Benapole Immigration Police did not allow 54 ISKCON devotees from Bangladesh to go to India while they were going to India through the Benapole International Checkpost Immigration.
Yesterday Saturday evening and this Sunday (December 01) morning, ISKCON devotees from different districts of the country came to Benapole to go to India. After waiting all day Saturday and until 10 am on Sunday, the Immigration Police did not allow them to go to India. As a result, they had to return unsuccessfully.
ISKCON member Saurabh Tapandar Cheli said, I had come to go to India to attend a religious ceremony. Benapole Immigration sent them back because they were not allowed to go to India.
Another ISKCON devotee who came to Benapole to go to India said that they wanted to go to India to perform religious rituals. But they were turned away from Immigration without any reason.
When contacted, Devgaur Das Brochari, the principal of Chanchra ISKCON temple in Jessore, refused to speak on the matter. Meanwhile, Benapole Immigration Checkpost Officer-in-Charge (OC) Imtiaz Md. Ahsanul Quader Bhuiyan said that 54 Bangladeshi passengers were not allowed to enter India due to suspicious travel.