DHAKA: A Bangladesh High Court on Wednesday commuted the death sentence of ULFA leader Paresh Baruah to life imprisonment and acquitted a former junior minister and five others in a 2004 case of attempted smuggling of weapons to the separatist outfit in North-East India.
Baruah, believed to be in China, was sentenced to death after a trial in absentia in 2014. His name also figures in the ‘most wanted’ list of National Investigation Agency.