Monday, April 18, 2005

BSF submits list of 190 ultra camps to BDR

GUWAHATI, April 17 – The Border Security Force (BSF) has handed over a list of 190 camps of the militant outfits of India in Bangladesh to the Bangladesh Rifles. The Director General of BSF, RS Mooshahary said that the list, with pinpointed location of the camps, was handed over to the BDR in a meeting between the two forces, which concluded in Dhaka yesterday.Mooshahary told newsmen here today that the BSF has also handed over a list of 161 militants taking shelter in Bangladesh and requested the BDR to take action to evict them. He said that the lists were prepared on the basis of intelligence inputs and on confessional statements of the arrested militants. The BDR assured to verify the list and “let us know,” he added. It may be mentioned here that earlier also, the BSF had submitted lists of camps of Indian militants in Bangladesh but so far no action has been taken by the Bangladeshi forces in this regard.Mooshahary said that the general secretary of the United liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) Anup Chetia has been released from prison in Bangladesh but the Bangladeshi authorities have not handed him over to India despite repeated requests. He said that they had raised the issue during the meeting, but the BDR officials said that the matter was not in their hands and the BDR is not authorised to take any decision in this regard.

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