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ULFA leader Anup Chetia sentenced for 7 years

First Assistant Metropolitan Sessions Judge Abu Sayeed Diljar sentenced Chetia, Babul Sharma, and Luxmi Prasad after the hearing in the case was completed. The leaders of the banned outfit were present in the court when the verdict was pronounced.

The ULFA leader is already serving a six-year jail term in Bangladesh for a number of crimes, including illegal entry, possession of forged passports, and unauthorised foreign currency of 16 countries.

Chetia was arrested in December 1997 in Dhaka during the regime of Sheikh Hasina and has been prosecuted in four cases.

He is wanted in India in a number of cases and New Delhi has urged Bangladesh to return him. But the Dhaka government decided to try him for his crimes.

Chetia along with his associates has sought asylum in Bangladesh several times both when the Awami League was ruling and after the new government of Begum Khaleda Zia swept to power in 2001.

Sanjib Debsharma of the National Liberation Front of Tripura has also sought asylum from the new government, which has not responded to their appeals thus far.

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