Kolkata: Bangladesh today flatly (March 4, 2004) denied that its soil was being used for anti-Indian militant activities and infiltration, saying that Dhaka, which was interested in improving bilateral relations between the two neighbours, would never permit it.

"We neither harbour anti-Indian elements in Bangladesh, nor support illegal movement of Bangladeshis to India," Bangladesh High Commissioner in India Hemayetuddin told a press conference.

The Bangladesh envoy described it as "baseless" and without a shred of evidence the charges made by Deputy Prime Minister L K Advani that a large number of militant training camps were operating from Bangladesh to destabilise law and order in West Bengal and several Northeastern States.

"We don't allow any group to conduct anti-Indian activity from Bangladesh and there is no evidence of any training camp there," he said.

The views of the Bangladesh Government, he said, had been categorically communicated to India, he said.

Hemayetuddin said that there was regular movement of people from both countries across the border, but none of it was clandestine or could be termed infiltration.

Dhaka believed in improving bilateral relations further with New Delhi and it was his main endeavour to make it happen, Hemayetuddin, who assumed charge a couple of months ago, said.