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Linking HujI to Assam blasts `irresponsible`: Bangla official
Dhaka, Oct 31 (PTI) Bangladesh Friday termed as "irresponsible" Indian authorities' pointing of needle of suspicion towards the outlawed HuJI militant group over the Assam serial blasts that claimed 77 lives.
The allegation about the Bangladesh-based HuJI's involvement was being made without any proof which "is an irresponsible act," a senior Home Ministry official here said preferring anonymity.
"The Indian authorities earlier also could not come up with any evidence to prove the engagement of any Bangladesh-based outfit in terror attacks on their territory," the official said.
His comments came as Indian security officials probed a possible link between Harkat-ul Jihad (HuJI) and the United Liberation Front of Assam (U.L.F.A.) behind Thursday's serial blasts in Assam.
A spokesman of the elite anti-crime Rapid Action Battalion (R.A.B.) had recently said the outlawed HuJI lost its "organisational strength" due to a massive security clampdown in the past two years leading to the arrest of most of its top leaders, including its chief Mufty Hannan.
Hannan and 21 operatives of his outfit and a former junior minister of the past Bangladesh Nationalist Party (B.N.P.) government were indicted earlier this week by a special court here over the grenade attack on a rally of former prime minister Sheikh Hasina in 2004 that had left 24 people dead.
The outfit is also believed to have carried out several other blasts including, a 2001 bombing during Bengali New Year celebrations here that claimed 12 lives and an attack on Bangladesh-born former British envoy in Dhaka Anwar Chowdhury.
Bangladesh banned HuJI in October 2005 while the United States earlier this year designated it as a "foreign terrorist organisation".
Indian security officials suspected the outfit's involvement in the Jaipur serial bombings also several months ago.
Meanwhile, the Bangladesh government condemned as "a cowardly act of terrorism" the serial blasts in Assam.
"It is a cowardly act of terrorism. Violence cannot be a tool for achievement of political objectives," Interim Cabinet's Foreign Adviser Iftekhar Ahmed Chowdhury said in a statement.
Bangladeshis "stand firmly beside their Indian neighbours at this sad hour," he said. PTI
The allegation about the Bangladesh-based HuJI's involvement was being made without any proof which "is an irresponsible act," a senior Home Ministry official here said preferring anonymity.
"The Indian authorities earlier also could not come up with any evidence to prove the engagement of any Bangladesh-based outfit in terror attacks on their territory," the official said.
His comments came as Indian security officials probed a possible link between Harkat-ul Jihad (HuJI) and the United Liberation Front of Assam (U.L.F.A.) behind Thursday's serial blasts in Assam.
A spokesman of the elite anti-crime Rapid Action Battalion (R.A.B.) had recently said the outlawed HuJI lost its "organisational strength" due to a massive security clampdown in the past two years leading to the arrest of most of its top leaders, including its chief Mufty Hannan.
Hannan and 21 operatives of his outfit and a former junior minister of the past Bangladesh Nationalist Party (B.N.P.) government were indicted earlier this week by a special court here over the grenade attack on a rally of former prime minister Sheikh Hasina in 2004 that had left 24 people dead.
The outfit is also believed to have carried out several other blasts including, a 2001 bombing during Bengali New Year celebrations here that claimed 12 lives and an attack on Bangladesh-born former British envoy in Dhaka Anwar Chowdhury.
Bangladesh banned HuJI in October 2005 while the United States earlier this year designated it as a "foreign terrorist organisation".
Indian security officials suspected the outfit's involvement in the Jaipur serial bombings also several months ago.
Meanwhile, the Bangladesh government condemned as "a cowardly act of terrorism" the serial blasts in Assam.
"It is a cowardly act of terrorism. Violence cannot be a tool for achievement of political objectives," Interim Cabinet's Foreign Adviser Iftekhar Ahmed Chowdhury said in a statement.
Bangladeshis "stand firmly beside their Indian neighbours at this sad hour," he said. PTI
