The Indian news agency yesterday quoted S C Srivastava, inspector general of Indian Border Security Force of Assam, Meghalaya, Manipur and Nagaland frontier, as saying at a news conference in Shillong that the ULFA-run hotels are located in Dhaka, Chittagong and Sylhet.

The report traced the three bank accounts to Arab Bangladesh Bank's Farm Gate Branch in Dhaka and Zinda Bazar Branch in Sylhet, and Al-Barakah Bank's Pahartali Branch in Chittagong.

"We don't have any such information," IG Abdul Quayum of Bangladesh Police told The Daily Star last night, noting, "It seems incorrect to me."

However, Quayum said they will check out the information, as they customarily do whenever any allegation comes from India.

The three Dhaka hotels named by IG Srivastava as controlled by Ulfa insurgents were Surma International on Taj Mahal Road, Hotel Mohammadia in Mirpur and Padma International in Banani. According to the BSF IG, these hotels are managed by Subal Barua alias Ahmed Satish Sharma alias Kamal and Ashish Deka alias Hossain.

He said the rebel outfit has two hotels in Sylhet, namely Keya International in Zinda Bazar area managed by Dulal Roy alias Saidul and Yamuna on University Road by Anil Dey alias Sohal.

The remaining two hotels Srivastava named were Hotel Basundhara managed by Subhash Deka alias Humayun at Halishahar and Raj King by Kanailal Barman alias Rubel at Pahartali in Chittagong.

According to the BSF regional chief, the managers of the hotels are "cadres of the proscribed outfit".