"We have been informed that the person (Padmanathan) is not yet detained," the Minister said when asked about reports of the LTTE leader's detention in Bangkok this week.

This information was conveyed by the Thai government to the Indian mission in Bangkok and "we are depending on that,” he said.

Mukherjee, who arrived in Bangkok on Thursday on a three-day visit, was speaking during an interaction after delivering a lecture on ‘India's Look-East Policy: Implications for Thailand and South East Asia’.

Kumaran Padmanathan, who allegedly financed former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi's assassination, was reported to have been detained in Thailand earlier this week. The CBI had also asked the Thai Interpol to confirm the report.

Chief of Thai Interpol, Col Apichart Suribynya, had said that on Wednesday "according to immigration records for the past two years, there is no record of him (Padmanathan) entering the country."