DHAKA: Bangladesh’s interim authorities led by Muhammad Yunus on Thursday stated deposed prime minister Sheikh Hasina’s reported extension of visa was unrelated to Dhaka’s request for her extradition to face trial. “Now we have requested India to return Sheikh Hasina as a Bangladeshi citizen. Her standing in India has no relevance to this request. It isn’t a matter of our consideration,” a international workplace spokesman instructed journalists in a weekly media briefing.
Hasina, 77, has been residing in India since August 5 final 12 months when she fled Bangladesh following an enormous student-led protest that toppled her Awami League’s (AL) 16-year regime. Bangladesh’s Worldwide Crimes Tribunal (ICT) has issued arrest warrants for Hasina and several other former Cupboard ministers, advisers, and army and civil officers for “crimes towards humanity and genocide”.
The interim authorities on Tuesday stated it has revoked the passports of Hasina and 96 others over their alleged involvement in enforced disappearances and the July killings. On Thursday, spokesman Rafiqul Alam added that Dhaka didn’t “have extra data, so we is not going to speculate” as he was requested for feedback concerning the media studies that New Delhi lately prolonged Hasina’s visa whereas Bangladesh revoked her diplomatic passport.
However he stated when a Bangladeshi citizen’s passport is scrapped, the nation involved is knowledgeable by Bangladesh’s missions and in such circumstances, a visa is now not required. Bangladesh final month formally sought Hasina’s repatriation to face trial on fees of mass killings throughout the Anti-Discrimination Pupil’s Motion dubbed as July-August rebellion that toppled her Awami League authorities on August 5. Hasina secretly left for India the identical day.
Bangladesh’s Worldwide Crimes Tribunal, initially fashioned to strive the hardened collaborators of atrocities of Pakistani troops throughout its 1971 Liberation Battle, to date has issued two arrest warrants ordering authorities to arrest her and guarantee her courtroom look by February 12 as she was additionally accused of enforced disappearances throughout the previous 16-year rule.
New Delhi acknowledged the receipt of the extradition request however made no response to the letter. Requested how lengthy India might delay responding to Bangladesh’s notice verbal and the diplomatic course of concerned, the spokesman stated, “There is no such thing as a black-and-white reply to this.”
