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During Sheikh Hasina’s current tenure, a large number of members of the United Liberation Front of Assam (ULFA), including its bigwig Arabinda Rajkhowa, had been handed over to the Indian authorities, while the Bangladeshi government is set in handing over ULFA leader Anup Chetia and two of his accomplices to India in next few weeks. It may be mentioned here that, Anup Chetia along with his accomplice Babul Sharma and Laxmi Prasad had been serving in Bangladeshi prison since 1993. Anup Chetia and two others were arrested from Dhaka by the local intelligence agency in 1993, when Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) was in power. Although Anup Chetia was arrested during BNP’s rule, it is rumored that the party had been extending support towards ULFA and other Indian separatist groups while there is also allegation of providing logistic supports by the BNP led government to these anti-Indian elements. ....
Back in 1999, when I was arrested, I was placed at the Old 20 cell in the Dhaka Central Jail. At that time, leader of the United Liberation Front of Assam (ULFA), Anup Chetia alias Golap Baruah along with his two comrades was in the New 20 Cells, just stone throwing distance from that of mine. ....