A court in Maharashtra's Thane district has sentenced three Bangladeshi nationals to five years' rigorous imprisonment for illegally staying in India.

The accused, who are in the jail since March 2017, are "entitled for the set off" under Criminal Procedure Code Section 428 (the period of detention of an accused as an undertrial prisoner shall be set off against the term of imprisonment imposed on him on conviction), special judge M B Patwari said in three different orders passed on January 21.