Bangladesh Court Cancels Death Penalty of Anti-India Separatist | Vantage with Palki Sharma

Bangladesh Court Cancels Death Penalty of Anti-India Separatist | Vantage with Palki Sharma

A Bangladesh court has cancelled the death penalty awarded to India's "most wanted" separatist Paresh Baruah, who led Assamese separatist group ULFA. The separatist and a minister of the then-BNP government were handed the death penalty in the 2004 arms haul case. Why has Bangladesh reduced his sentence? What does it mean for separatism in India's northeast? Palki Sharma tells you.

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