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December 12, 2002, Chandigarh, India  
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Anees
case: India suffers setback Bangladesh
frees two foreign scribes
49 Indians
held Verdict on Quattrocchi
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Anees case: India suffers setback
Dubai, December 11 The Dubai police said Anees, who was arrested on December 3, said he had been referred to the public prosecution on charge of murdering a fellow Indian businessman four years ago. The UAE will not hand him over to another country unless the trial is over here, the Dubai police was quoted by the Gulf News daily today as saying. “If any country has an interest and evidence of his involvement in another crime, it should wait till the end of his trial here”, the police said, indicating that his extradition or deportation may be a long drawn out affair. “We have strong evidence of his (Anees) involvement in the murder of a fellow businessman whose body was buried in a villa four years ago. The remains were uncovered recently by the owner of the villa while doing some maintenance jobs,” the police was quoted as saying. The police sources told the Gulf News that Anees was held then on suspicion of involvement in the murder but was let free for lack of evidence. He left the UAE after his release. The remains of the victim, allegedly killed by Anees, were discovered in November but his identity could not be established, according to the police. However, the police said “the family of the victim has helped the police in solving the mystery by identifying the clothes the victim was wearing at the time of his disappearance. The clothes and other belongings were buried with him in the villa”.
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Bangladesh frees two foreign scribes
Dhaka, December 11 The government in an “extraordinary gesture, agreed to deport the two journalists” belonging to Britain’s Channel 4 television network, State Minister for Foreign Affairs Reaz Rahman told a hurriedly-called press meet at the ministry. The deportation order came after local dailies published reports that the US Government has raised the issue of detention of the scribes with the authorities here. Mr Rahman, however, rejected the suggestion of being “pressurised” to release the two and said there was no “sedition” charge against them as was earlier reported. Zaiba Naz Malik, a British national of Pakistan origin, and Leopoldo Bruno Sorrentino, an Italian, flew into the country early last month and were detained at Benapole at the Indo-Bangladesh border in western Bangladesh on November 25. They were brought here on the following morning, produced in court, then taken on a five-day remand and sent to prison. Mr Rahman said the two were accused of impersonating and forging false identity. It was alleged that, failing to get visa from the Bangladesh Mission in London as journalists, they procured visa as tourists from the Bangladesh Embassy in Rome. The journalists acknowledged that they had improperly entered the country on false professional identities and apologised for the act of deception, said the statement.
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49 Indians held Jerusalem, December 11 The immigration police nabbed them while they were reportedly looking for work in this country, the report said, adding that they would be deported soon. The person who helped them to disappear and hide had not yet been caught, it said.
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Verdict
on Quattrocchi tomorrow Kuala Lumpur, December 11 Mr Justice Augustine Paul of the Kuala Lumpur High Court reserved the verdict for December 13 after arguments were concluded today on an Indian appeal against a lower court judgement rejecting the plea for the businessman’s extradition.
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