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Dhaka dismisses New Delhi's take-back claim

Staff Correspondent
Dhaka yesterday dismissed New Delhi's claim that Bangladesh had accepted 213 people stranded for a week in the noman's land.
"We don't have any evidence about what Indian media claimed and there is no illegal Bangladeshi in India," Foreign Secretary Shamser Mobin Chowdhury told newsmen at the weekly foreign ministry briefing.
Earlier in the day, Inspector General of the Border Security Force (BSF) KC Sharma told Indian media
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that the Bangladesh Rifles (BDR) had taken back the 213 people between 2:00am and 2:30am on Wednesday in small batches.
Chowdhury, however, said those people were no more visible from early yesterday morning. "We don't know where they have gone."
A high-level flag meeting between the BDR and the BSF would be held at Coochbehar in West Bengal today (Friday) to discuss the tense border situation, the foreign secretary said.
Meanwhile, the foreign ministry is fixing a date for Foreign Minister M Morshed Khan's visit to New Delhi on an invitation from hisIndian counterpart Yashwant Sinha.
Sinha invited Khan Wednesday night over telephone for a return visit.
In the wake of a tense situation at the border, Chowdhury termed the invitation a 'positive development' as "it would give a chance to discuss different issues".
Earlier, Bangladesh High Commissioner to India Tufail Haider met Yashwant Sinha Wednesday evening.
Sinha had assured Haider that there would be "no escalation of tension from the Indian side", the foreign secretary said.
"There should be restraint on rhetoric from both the sides and India is keen to have best of relations with Bangladesh," Sinha was quoted to have said.
Chowdhury said India must stop its push-in bids because "there are laid-down procedure to deal with the issue of illegal immigrants". He asserted, "There should be a permanent solution to this issue."
The foreign secretary downplayed Indian Defence Minister George Fernandes' claim that the border situation 'has gone beyond control'.
"It is very much under control but there should not be any move for escalation of tension"