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Bangladesh sends ULFA chief to jail for six years

A Bangladesh court has sentenced United Liberation Front of Asom leader Anup Chetia to six years in jail for illegal immigration.

The ULFA secretary-general, arrested from a rented house in Dhaka on December 21, pleaded guilty.

"There was no place safe for me in India. That's why I had to come to Bangladesh in the hope of getting political asylum,'' he told the court on Sunday before the verdict.

Chetia is wanted in India for murder and kidnapping.

Magistrate Habibur Rahman convicted the rebel for unauthorised entry and stay in Bangladesh holding a forged passport.

Chetia now faces trial on two more counts of illegal holding of foreign currency and cell phones.

Since his arrest, India has been seeking Chetia's extradition.

UNI

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