Bangladesh court commutes ULFA chief Paresh Baruah’s death sentence to life imprisonment
The bench acquitted a former junior minister and five others in a 2004 weapons smuggling case.
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A High Court bench of the Bangladeshi Supreme Court on Wednesday commuted the death sentence of United Liberation Front of Asom chief Paresh Barua to life imprisonment in connection with a 2004 weapons smuggling case, reported The Times of India.
A bench comprising Justices Mustafa Zaman Islam and Nasreen Akter also acquitted former minister Lutfozzaman Babar and five others, according to India Today.
The case pertains to the seizure of 4,930 firearms, 27,020 grenades, 840 rocket launchers, 300 rockets, 2,000 grenade launching tubes, 6,392 magazines and over 1.14 million bullets by the Bangladesh police on April 1, 2004.
The weapons were seized as they were being loaded onto trucks from two boats at a jetty in Chittagong. Investigation showed that they were manufactured in China and were being shipped to the United Liberation Front of Asom.
In January 2014, a special court in Chittagong sentenced Baruah and 13 others to death, reported The Times of India.
The United Liberation Front of Asom was banned in India in 1990 under the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act. Since 1979, the group has sought to create a sovereign nation of Assam for the indigenous Assamese people through an armed struggle.
Baruah, who is believed to be in China, is on the National Investigation Agency’s most wanted list, reported PTI.
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