Bangla denies ‘arrest’ of ULFA’s Paresh Barua

The newspapers said the police were ascertaining whether the arrested man,from whom a passport was recovered with the name Shamsul Alam on it,has any link with the ULFA.

Quoting an unnamed intelligence official,Samakal said the arrested man was Paresh Barua,the prime accused in the seizure of huge arms and ammunitions along the Chittagong coast in 2004. Police,however,did not confirm,it added.

A senior CID official later dismissed the reports of Barua’s arrest. “Following the reports in the two newspapers about the arrest of Paresh Barua,we checked the matter and found it to be hoax… No such person was arrested by our men as reported,” the official said.