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Extradition treaty with India ratified

Staff Correspondent
The cabinet yesterday ratified the extradition treaty, signed between Bangladesh and India, to facilitate exchange of convicted and wanted criminals between the two neighbouring countries.
"The treaty will help both the countries to extradite criminals. However, both the countries could decline to hand over a person accused of political crimes," said Cabinet Secretary M Musharraf Hossain Bhuiyan.
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India had already ratified the treaty which was signed in January this year, Musharraf said while talking to reporters after the cabinet meeting held with Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in the chair at the Secretariat.
The ratification of the treaty paves the way for Bangladesh to bring Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman's killers back, if any of them was hiding in India, through due legal process, he added.
The Bangladesh government suspects that one or two killers might be hiding in India, and had requested the Indian authorities to conduct a search for them.
In July this year, the gov-
ernment shared with India more information about the whereabouts of some killers of Bangabandhu.
The issue of search for the killers of Bangabandhu was raised by the Bangladesh side at the home secretarylevel talks held in New Delhi. The Indian side told the visiting team that it would step up hunt for the fugitives.
The cabinet meeting approved a proposal to sign an agreement titled 'The Bangladesh-US Counter Terrorism Cooperation Initiative'.
Linder the agreement, the two governments would share technology and information on terrorism, terrorist financing and money laundering.
The meeting also approved a proposal for the signing of a memorandum of understanding (MoU) between the home ministry of Bangladesh and Drug Enforcement Administration of the US.
The agreement and the MoU were not legally binding on any country, the cabinet secretary told the newsmen.
The cabinet meeting gave final approval to the draft of Payra River Port Act, 2013 for setting up the country's third seaport at Rabonadhi channel in Barguna district.
The meeting also approved an annual report that was prepared on the activities of different ministries and divisions in the 2012-13 fiscal year.