Dhaka to help on ULFA: Shashank

Foreign Secretary Shashank has said that during his recent visit to Bangladesh, he got the 8216;8216;impression8217;8217; that Dhaka wou...

Foreign Secretary Shashank has said that during his recent visit to Bangladesh, he got the 8216;8216;impression8217;8217; that Dhaka would 8216;8216;very soon co-operate8217;8217; with New Delhi on the issue of ULFA leaders on their soil.

In return, Bangladesh has asked for some alleged criminals who are now living in India.

Speaking to The Indian Express, the foreign secretary said New Delhi has also asked for particulars of Indians detained in Bangladesh so that consular access could be provided to persons like Anup Chetia, who has been in detention in Bangladesh for several years.

8216;8216;Other important things are also in progress,8217;8217; Shashank said. 8216;8216;Bangladesh has got the texts of the proposed extradition treaty as well as the mutual legal assistance treaty and we are hoping these will be signed soon.8217;8217;

He, however, clarified that it was too early to talk about the modalities for the return of ULFA leaders as yet. Besides Anup Chetia, other important leaders in Bangladesh include ULFA8217;s Commander-in-Chief Paresh Barua and Tripura militant leader Sanjib Dev Burman.

Earlier this year, during talks with their counterparts, the Bangla Rifles BDR, senior officials of the Border Security Force BSF handed over details of locations of over 100 militant training camps located in Bangladesh.

Ritu Sarin

Ritu Sarin is Executive Editor (News and Investigations) at The Indian Express group. Her areas of specialisation include internal security, money laundering and corruption. Sarin is one of India’s most renowned reporters and has a career in journalism of over four decades. She is a member of the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) since 1999 and since early 2023, a member of its Board of Directors. She has also been a founder member of the ICIJ Network Committee (INC). She has, to begin with, alone, and later led teams which have worked on ICIJ’s Offshore Leaks, Swiss Leaks, the Pulitzer Prize winning Panama Papers, Paradise Papers, Implant Files, Fincen Files, Pandora Papers, the Uber Files and Deforestation Inc. She has conducted investigative journalism workshops and addressed investigative journalism conferences with a specialisation on collaborative journalism in several countries. ... Read More