Bangladesh’s interim authorities stated on Monday that it has despatched a diplomatic observe to India to ship again deposed prime minister Sheikh Hasina to Dhaka.
Hasina, 77, has been residing in exile in India since Aug 5 when she fled the nation amid the student-led protests that toppled her 16-year regime. Dhaka-based Worldwide Crimes Tribunal (ICT) has issued arrest warrants for Hasina and a number of other former Cupboard ministers, advisers, and army and civil officers for “crimes in opposition to humanity and genocide”.
“We’ve despatched a observe verbale (diplomatic message) to the Indian authorities saying that Bangladesh desires her again right here for the judicial course of,” Overseas Affairs Adviser or de facto overseas minister Touhid Hossain instructed reporters at his workplace.
Earlier within the morning, Dwelling Advisor Jahangir Alam stated his workplace has despatched a letter to the overseas ministry to facilitate the ousted premier’s extradition from India.
“We’ve despatched a letter to the overseas ministry relating to her extradition. The method is presently underway,” he instructed reporters in response to a question.
Alam stated an extradition treaty between Dhaka and New Delhi already exists and Hasina might be introduced again to Bangladesh underneath the treaty.
‘Fallen autocrat Sheikh Hasina’
Final month, in an tackle to the nation on the completion of 100 days of the interim authorities, Bangladesh’s Chief Adviser Muhammad Yunus stated it’s going to search the extradition of Hasina.
“We should guarantee justice in each killing… We can even ask India to ship again fallen autocrat Sheikh Hasina,” he stated.
Yunus, who assumed workplace on August 8, claimed that about 1,500 individuals, together with college students and staff, had been killed whereas 19,931 others had been wounded in the course of the protest in opposition to the Hasina authorities.
In October, Legislation Adviser Asif Nazrul had reportedly stated that Bangladesh would strongly protest if India tried to refuse Hasina’s extradition by citing any provision within the treaty.
In an interview with PTI in Dhaka in September, Yunus had stated that Hasina making political remarks from India is an “unfriendly gesture”, asserting that she should stay silent to forestall discomfort to each international locations till Dhaka requests her extradition.
“If India desires to maintain her till the time Bangladesh (authorities) desires her again, the situation can be that she has to maintain quiet,” he stated.
In current weeks, Hasina has accused the Yunus-led interim authorities of perpetrating “genocide” and failing to guard minorities, particularly Hindus, since her ouster.
