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After the 15th India-Bangladesh Home
Secretary-level meeting at Dhaka, Bangladesh Home Affairs Secretary Mozammel Haque Khan has confirmed that Bangladesh has agreed to hand over Anup Chetia to India, which will send back Nur Hossain, prime accused in a case of seven murders in Narayanganj.
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Government of India has asked Bangladesh to extradite Chetia. The request was refused by Bangladesh on the ground that the two countries do not have an extradition treaty. However, India is still hopeful that the
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Liberation Front of Assam general secretary Anup Chetia will be extradited to India from Bangladesh by December this year, Union Home Affairs joint secretary (north east), Shambhu Singh, told reporters here on
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Chetia was first arrested in March, 1991 in Assam but was released by then Chief
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government would accede to the request in view of its tough resolve against terrorism.
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Anup Chetia has been released from the
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