State Minister for Home Affairs Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal said the ministry is 'processing' ULFA leader Anup Chetia's request for voluntary repatriation to India, reports bdnews24.com.
The United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) leader, who had been in a Bangladeshi jail since 1997, asked for the repatriation in June last year.
The government has since been saying that the process is on to send the Indian insurgent leader back.
Mr Kamal replying to a question in Parliament said Sunday the home ministry was looking into his application for return to his own country.
Chetia, general secretary of the outlawed ULFA, has been detained in Bangladesh prison since 1997.
He appealed to Bangladesh to let him go back home in June, 2013. He also wants his petition for political asylum in Bangladesh cancelled for which he applied in 2005, 2008 and 2011.
ULFA soon afterwards also sought Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's intervention in the matter.
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FE Team | Published: June 09, 2014 00:00:00 | Updated: November 30, 2026 06:01:00
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