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Home Minister P Chidambaram assured the Bangladeshi establishment that India would spare no effort in looking for the two fugitives as he met top officials here during his visit.
"It`s possible that they could be in India," he told a joint press briefing with his counterpart Sahara Khatun at the end of their crucial talks, ahead of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh`s Dhaka tour next month.
He said New Delhi asked Bangladesh to provide some more information and intelligence to help find former army captain Abdul Majed and former Risaldar Moslehuddin who were on the run to evade death penalties.
"I have assured my counterpart that no effort and resources will be spared to apprehend and hand them over to Bangladesh," the Home Minister said.
Chidambaram`s comments came after Khatun in her opening statement at the briefing said, "we requested (New Delhi) to find out if the two were hiding anywhere in India".
Chidambaram also pledged New Delhi`s support to help Dhaka in tracking down the fugitives as he made a courtesy call on Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina at her office yesterday, a spokesman said.
Twelve former army officers were handed down death sentences for masterminding and carrying out the August 15, 1975 carnage under a protracted trial process that began in 1996, when the ruling Awami League returned to power.
