GNLA leader Champion pushed back
Bangladesh on Monday "pushed back" Champion R Sangma, co-founder and chairman of the Garo National Liberation Army (GNLA), to India.
The Times of India, a leading Indian newspaper, reported that Champion, a former deputy superintendent of police-turned-militant, had been arrested at an apartment in Dhaka on intelligence provided by India.
He was kept under custody of the Bangladesh authorities before he was handed over to the Indian authorities on the Indo-Bangla border, the report added.
“He is in the custody of Meghalaya police,” Director General of Police N Ramachandran confirmed the newspaper.
However, Kamal Uddin Ahmed, additional secretary (political) of home ministry, told The Daily Star that they don't know anything about the arrest.
There is no extradition treaty between the two countries.
Garo hills-based GNLA was declared a terror organisation in January by Indian government for killing security personnel and civilians along with committing abductions and extortions.
The report also read Champion was presented in the court of the chief judicial magistrate, which placed him on a 15-day remand.
Champion co-founded GNLA in 2010, it added.
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