No timeframe to deport Chetia
Bangladesh has not given any fixed timeframe to India for the deportation of Ulfa leader Anup Chetia, who is lodged in a jail in that country for over a decade. It has, however, assured the Indian side that it is working on the long-pending demand and due procedures will be followed before he can be handed over to Indian authorities.
“We are working on it. It is following its routine procedures. You will come to know (outcome) eventually,” senior secretary in Bangladesh’s ministry of home affairs C.Q.K. Mushtaq Ahmed told reporters after conclusion of the home secretary-level talks, which began on July 19, with his counterpart Anil Goswami here.
Maintaining there is no fixed timeframe for the deportation of Chetia, he said: “We will resolve the issue. We are working on it. Without any extradition treaty it went on... There is no quid pro quo.’’ Mr Ahmed was responding to questions on whether there was any give-and-take deal between India and Bangladesh on Chetia’s deportation.
The Ulfa “general secretary” has been in jail in Bangladesh since 1997. India and Bangladesh has signed an extradition treaty early this year. “This is a regular series of meetings that we are having. The relations between India and Bangladesh are based on goodwill and mutual faith. It is not that we are negotiating some vexed issued between the two countries. Actually these are the routine issues between the two countries,” Mr C.Q.K. Mushtaq Ahmed said.
Both countries discussed the ratification of the Land Boundary Agreement-1974 and the protocol signed in 2011 and noted that its early ratification will lay the long-pending boundary related issues at rest, Mr Goswami said in a joint statement. The two nations have also set up a joint task force on fake currency notes and agreed “the first meeting may be convened soon to develop a mechanism to deal with the menace”.
Reaffirming their commitment not to allow the territory of either country to be used for any activity inimical to each other’s interests, the two countries also agreed to extend cooperation in sharing actionable intelligence and apprehending wanted criminals and fugitives.
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