India sheltering guerillas: BD

Published January 11, 2004

DHAKA, Jan 10: Dhaka has complained to New Delhi that some 100 anti-Bangladesh insurgents are operating from 39 camps in India, report most of the national dailies on Saturday.

Quoting Bangladesh's official news agency BSS, the newspapers said the director-general of the Bangladesh Rifle, Maj-Gen Jahangir Alam Chowdhury, put forward the complaint to his Indian counterpart in the Border Security Force at a meeting held in Delhi on Thursday.

The BSS reported from Delhi on Friday that the BSF chief handed over a list of 91 insurgents, terrorists and criminals operating against Bangladesh from various camps in India.

The camps were located in the Indian bordering states of Assam, Mizoram and Tripura.