DHAKA ( WNAM REPORT ): Bangladesh on Monday urged India to extradite former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and former interior minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal after both were sentenced to death for their role in the crackdown against a student uprising last year. Dhaka said New Delhi was obliged to do so under an extradition treaty.
Hasina’s autocratic rule was backed by New Delhi, and the 78-year-old fled to India after her ouster in a mass uprising in August 2024, fraying relations between the two neighbours. She has been in hiding ever since.
On Monday, a court in Dhaka sentenced Hasina as well as former interior minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal to death in absentia, after being found guilty of crimes against humanity over a deadly crackdown against last year’s student-led uprising.
The former minister’s whereabouts are not known, but Bangladesh says he is also in India.
“We urge the government of India to immediately extradite the two convicts to the Bangladeshi authorities,” Dhaka’s foreign ministry said in a statement, saying it was “an obligatory responsibility for India”.
Bangladesh warned that “granting asylum to these convicts… would be extremely unfriendly and an affront to justice.”
India’s foreign ministry said that it had “noted the verdict” of Hasina.
