Question and answer session in the Indian Rajya Sabha on Sheikh Hasina’s extradition
India’s Minister of State for External Affairs Kriti Vardhan Singh has said that no decision has been taken yet despite receiving a request to send ousted Bangladeshi dictator Sheikh Hasina back for trial.
She made this disclosure in response to a written question by John Bruttas in the Rajya Sabha session on Thursday. Khabar News Eighteen.
In a written question, Rajya Sabha member John Bruttas wanted to know whether the Bangladesh government has asked for Sheikh Hasina back; if so, what was the reason given and whether the Indian government has informed the Bangladesh government of its response.
In response, Kriti Vardhan said that the Bangladesh government has asked for Sheikh Hasina back. They said that Sheikh Hasina had committed various crimes before leaving the country. However, the Indian government has not yet informed Bangladesh of any decision in this regard.
Awami League President Sheikh Hasina has been in India since she fled to India on August 5 in the face of strong mass protests. Although some of her party’s senior leaders have been arrested, most are still in hiding.
Meanwhile, the interim government has taken the initiative to try Sheikh Hasina and others at the International Crimes Tribunal, considering the Awami League government’s repression of the student and public movement as genocide.
Between July 5 and August 5, more than fifty allegations of genocide and crimes against humanity have been submitted to the tribunal’s investigation agency and prosecution office across the country during the student and public movement.
The tribunal has issued arrest warrants against Sheikh Hasina in one case and against 45 people, including her family members and Awami League leaders, in another case.
While Sheikh Hasina is being tried in nearly three hundred cases, the interim government sent a ‘diplomatic letter’ to the Indian government on December 23 requesting her return under the extradition treaty.
