Dhaka: Dismissing all the reports of the top ULFA leader Paresh Barua of being arrested in Dhaka, police called it as a “hoax”.
Barua is on the run for three decades but on Sunday a Bangladeshi newspaper reported that he has been arrested.
The Criminal Investigation Department (CID) officials arrested a suspected Indian national at a house in central Dhaka's posh residential locality Dhanmondi late last night, reported widely-circulated Bengali dailies in Bangladesh - Ittefaq and Samakal.
The police are ascertaining whether the arrested man, from whom a passport was recovered with the name Shamsul Alam on it, has any link with the separatist Indian group ULFA, the newspapers added.
Quoting an unnamed intelligence official, Samakal said the arrested man was Paresh Barua, the prime accused in the seizure of huge arms and ammunitions along the Chittagong coast in 2004. Police, however, did not confirm, it added.
A senior CID official however has dismissed the reports of Barua's arrest.
“Following the reports in the two newspapers about the arrest of Paresh Barua, we checked the matter and found it to be hoax. No such person was arrested by our men as reported,” the official told PTI.
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