India, June 9 -- Nearly 150 Indians continue to languish in Bangladeshi prisons despite completing their jail terms as procedural delays prevented their return home, officials said on Monday.

A prison official said 152 foreigners, including 148 Indians, were languishing in Bangladeshi prisons even though they had completed their jail terms, according to prison statistics published six months ago.

The official, who preferred to remain anonymous, said several of these foreign inmates had completed their terms years ago, however the official identification process alongside bureaucratic or diplomatic inaction prolonged their captivity.

He said a large number of the Indian inmates were detained on charges such as illegal cross-border entry...