India ‘examining’ Bangladesh extradition request for convicted ex-PM Hasina

Indian officials accidental they are examining Dhaka’s latest request, made aft Hasina was sentenced to decease successful absentia.

India says it is examining a petition from Bangladesh for the extradition of erstwhile Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, who was precocious sentenced to death successful absentia implicit a crackdown against a fashionable uprising.

A spokesperson for India’s Ministry of External Affairs, Randhir Jaiswal, told reporters connected Wednesday that his authorities was examining the petition from Dhaka for the extradition of the 78-year-old, who fled to India aft being ousted successful a wide uprising successful August past year.

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“As portion of ongoing judicial and interior ineligible processes, we stay committed to the champion involvement of the radical of Bangladesh, including peace, democracy, inclusion and stableness successful that country,” Jaiswal said, adding that New Delhi would “continue to prosecute constructively successful this respect with each stakeholders”.

Bangladesh initially requested Hasina’s extradition past year. On Sunday, officials said they had precocious sent different letter, urging New Delhi to manus implicit their fugitive erstwhile leader.

Sentenced to death

That missive followed Hasina’s condemnation by a peculiar International Crimes Tribunal (ICT) successful Dhaka for crimes against humanity, which saw her sentenced to decease connected November 17.

After the tribunal ruling, Bangladesh’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs said successful a connection that India had an “obligatory responsibility” nether a bilateral extradition pact signed successful 2013 to extradite the erstwhile leader, adding that allowing her to stay successful India was a “grave enactment of unfriendly behaviour”.

The connection added that it was “a travesty of justness for immoderate different state to assistance asylum to these individuals convicted of crimes against humanity”.

But observers said India is highly improbable to hold to manus implicit Hasina.

“India understands this [Hasina’s case] to beryllium governmental vindictiveness of the ruling governmental forces successful Bangladesh,” Sanjay Bhardwaj, prof of South Asian Studies astatine New Delhi’s Jawaharlal Nehru University, told Al Jazeera past week.

Hasina, who led Bangladesh for 15 years, fled to India during the tallness of the wide uprising against her hardline rule. More than 1,400 radical were killed successful the crackdown against protesters, the United Nations said.

Bangladesh is owed successful February to clasp its archetypal wide predetermination since the uprising, and Hasina’s party, the Awami League, is barred from participating.