30.6.13

Bangladesh set to deport Chetia

Bangladesh has set the ball rolling to hand over Ulfa general secretary Anup Chetia to India, with the fugitive militant leader being shifted from Rajshahi jail to Kashimpur Central Jail on the outskirts of Dhaka.
The development comes three days after India’s Union home secretary R K Singh told media at the end of the sixth round of talks with the pro-talks Ulfa group in New Delhi that Chetia is likely to be handed over next month.
On May 13, Chetia petitioned the Bangladesh government expressing his desire to withdraw his appeal for political asylum in the country and instead send him back to his home in India. He has also asked for deportation of his two colleagues, Lakhiprasad Goswami and Babul Sarma, who were arrested along with him in Dhaka on December 21, 1997 for illegally entering the country.

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