<p>Indian terrorists Abdul Karim Tunda and Yasin Bhatkal were arrested here and handed over to Indian authorities, leading Nepali daily Kantipur said Friday. Nepal's officials have denied this.<br /><br /></p>.<p>Bhaktal, the Indian Mujahideen co-founder, was arrested by Nepali security agencies Wednesday from the heart of Kathmandu and handed over at the Nepal-India border at Raxual, the report said.<br /><br />Quoting highly placed Nepali intelligence officials, it said Bhaktal was caught at Bagbazar area, taken to Birgunj, a town on Nepal's border with India, and handed over to the Indians.<br />He was then shifted to Motihari district in Bihar.<br /><br />According to the report, Bhaktal, one of India's most wanted terrorists, had travelled five times to Kathmandu from Dubai and Pakistan. <br /><br />Indian security agencies had been keeping a vigil on Tunda, the Laskar-e-Taiba terrorist group's bomb maker, from the time he landed at the Tribhuvan International Airport, the daily said. <br /><br />He was arrested while coming out of Jama Masjid at Bagbazar in Kathmandu. The man was on a motorcycle. Tunda reportedly made frequent visits to Jamia IBN Tai Miya Madint Islam Muslim College in Motihari district in Bihar. The institute is located 20 km south of the Nepal-India border.<br /><br />Nepal Police and home ministry denied the report. "We do not have any knowledge about these arrests," Nepal's home ministry spokesperson Shanker Prasad Koirala told IANS.<br /><br />Although Nepal and India are yet to revisit their bilateral extradition treaty, both sides have agreed to share intelligence to curb terrorism, extremism and criminal elements. <br /><br />"We have a regular mechanism to share intelligence with our Indian counterparts at any given point of time related to various incidents and personnel," Nepal Police spokesman Nawa Raj Silwal said. <br /><br />"But in these particular cases, we do not have any idea that Nepali side handed over them to people on the Indian side," he said.<br /><br />Besides these two arrests, Nepal security services recently arrested two Indian sharpshooters and gangsters, Chirinjivi Sagar Kushwaha and Bikash Jha, and handed them over to Bihar Police. <br /><br />According to police sources, some 400 Indian criminals and those with terrorist links have been arrested so far this year in Nepal. The figure stood at 349 last year.<br />India and Nepal share a long and porous border, and Indian criminals are known to use Nepal to transit to their countries.</p>
<p>Indian terrorists Abdul Karim Tunda and Yasin Bhatkal were arrested here and handed over to Indian authorities, leading Nepali daily Kantipur said Friday. Nepal's officials have denied this.<br /><br /></p>.<p>Bhaktal, the Indian Mujahideen co-founder, was arrested by Nepali security agencies Wednesday from the heart of Kathmandu and handed over at the Nepal-India border at Raxual, the report said.<br /><br />Quoting highly placed Nepali intelligence officials, it said Bhaktal was caught at Bagbazar area, taken to Birgunj, a town on Nepal's border with India, and handed over to the Indians.<br />He was then shifted to Motihari district in Bihar.<br /><br />According to the report, Bhaktal, one of India's most wanted terrorists, had travelled five times to Kathmandu from Dubai and Pakistan. <br /><br />Indian security agencies had been keeping a vigil on Tunda, the Laskar-e-Taiba terrorist group's bomb maker, from the time he landed at the Tribhuvan International Airport, the daily said. <br /><br />He was arrested while coming out of Jama Masjid at Bagbazar in Kathmandu. The man was on a motorcycle. Tunda reportedly made frequent visits to Jamia IBN Tai Miya Madint Islam Muslim College in Motihari district in Bihar. The institute is located 20 km south of the Nepal-India border.<br /><br />Nepal Police and home ministry denied the report. "We do not have any knowledge about these arrests," Nepal's home ministry spokesperson Shanker Prasad Koirala told IANS.<br /><br />Although Nepal and India are yet to revisit their bilateral extradition treaty, both sides have agreed to share intelligence to curb terrorism, extremism and criminal elements. <br /><br />"We have a regular mechanism to share intelligence with our Indian counterparts at any given point of time related to various incidents and personnel," Nepal Police spokesman Nawa Raj Silwal said. <br /><br />"But in these particular cases, we do not have any idea that Nepali side handed over them to people on the Indian side," he said.<br /><br />Besides these two arrests, Nepal security services recently arrested two Indian sharpshooters and gangsters, Chirinjivi Sagar Kushwaha and Bikash Jha, and handed them over to Bihar Police. <br /><br />According to police sources, some 400 Indian criminals and those with terrorist links have been arrested so far this year in Nepal. The figure stood at 349 last year.<br />India and Nepal share a long and porous border, and Indian criminals are known to use Nepal to transit to their countries.</p>