Bangladesh asks India to extradite fugitive ex-PM Sheikh Hasina

Dhaka says New Delhi has an ‘obligatory responsibility’ to manus implicit the erstwhile leader, who was precocious sentenced to decease for past year’s deadly crackdown connected student-led uprising.

Bangladesh has again asked India to extradite erstwhile Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, who was precocious sentenced to death successful absentia implicit past year’s deadly crackdown against a student-led uprising.

Touhid Hossain, who holds the overseas affairs portfolio successful Bangladesh’s interim administration, connected Sunday said Dhaka had sent a missive 2 days ago, urging New Delhi to manus implicit the fugitive ex-leader.

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Hasina, 78, has been successful hiding successful India – her adjacent state erstwhile she was the premier curate of Bangladesh for 15 years,  until her autocratic regularisation was overthrown successful a wide uprising successful August 2024, successful which much than 1,400 radical were killed, according to the United Nations.

On Monday, a peculiar International Crimes Tribunal (ICT) successful Dhaka convicted Hasina of crimes against humanity and sentenced her to death, fulfilling a cardinal pledge by the interim government, led by Nobel Peace laureate Muhammad Yunus.

Following the tribunal ruling, Bangladesh’s Foreign Ministry said successful a connection that India had an “obligatory responsibility” nether a bilateral extradition pact signed successful 2013 to facilitate the erstwhile leader’s return.

The ministry said keeping Hasina is simply a “grave enactment of unfriendly behaviour”, and called it “a travesty of justness for immoderate different state to assistance asylum to these individuals convicted of crimes against humanity”.

India’s Foreign Ministry responded by saying it had “noted” the Hasina verdict. But India has truthful acold not commented connected the prospects of her extradition. Bangladeshi paper Prothom Alo says Dhaka has made astatine slightest 3 specified extradition requests truthful far.

India’s past enactment for Hasina has frayed relations betwixt the 2 South Asian neighbours since her overthrow.

But tensions look to person eased somewhat this week aft Bangladesh’s National Security Adviser Khalilur Rahman visited India for a determination information summit, wherever helium besides met his Indian counterpart, Ajit Doval.

Media reports successful Bangladesh said Rahman has invited Doval for a visit.

Bangladesh volition clasp its archetypal wide elections since the protests successful February. Hasina’s party, the Awami League, is barred from immoderate governmental activity.