Bangladesh handed over ULFA (United Liberation Front of Asom) leader Anup Chetia to India by, Press Trust of India said quoting highly-placed sources. Indian media reports, the ULFA leader was handed to Indian authorities at the Indo-Bangladesh border. Chetia may be brought to Delhi for interrogation and further investigation, reports News World India.

India has long been pressing for Chetia’s deportation. He has been in a Dhaka jail since his arrest in December 1997 on charges of entering Bangladesh without valid documents.

The PTI report says, development follows on the heels of the deportation to India of underworld don Chhota Rajan, one of country’s most- wanted criminals, who was on the run for 27 years

However, Chetia, a founding member and general of ULFA is wanted for murder, abductions and extortion cases in India.

He had sought political asylum in Bangladesh thrice in 2005, 2008 and in 2011 after Bangladesh police arrested him and was subsequently handed seven years of jail terms by two courts for cross-border intrusion, carrying fake passports and illegally keeping foreign currencies.

Despite the expiry of his term, Chetia was in jail under a 2003 High Court directive asking authorities to keep him in safe custody until a decision was taken on his asylum plea.