Hasina who has been based in India since fleeing Dhaka on August 5, 2024, addressed a press conference on August 5, 2026, at the Foreign Correspondents Club in Delhi during which she said, “Fear has returned to Bangladesh. Ms. The press conference drew a quick response from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Bangladesh that described Ms.
The story so far: Bangladesh on Sunday (August 16, 2026) urged India to create a “propitiate environment” for enabling Prime Minister Tarique Rahman’s visit to India by extraditing deposed PM Sheikh Hasina. Hasina as a “convicted genocider” and accused her of “gruesome killing of the innocent civilians including minor children during July-August 2024” uprising in Bangladesh.
On Sunday (August 16, 2026), A.K.M. Shahidul Karim, Official Spokesperson, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Dhaka, further demanded that India should also extradite the suspected killers of Osman Hadi who was died in Singapore last December after being shot in Dhaka by unidentified assassins who are reported to have escaped to India after the incident.
In principle, India can extradite a person who is wanted by Bangladesh of committing offences as the extradition treaty mentions that people wanted by both sides can be extradited through this “reciprocal” agreement. The document however clearly states under Article 6 that is titled “Political Offence Exception” that individuals involved in offences of a political nature can be an exception in extradition process. This provision says: “Extradition may be refused if the offence of which it is requested is an offence of a political character.”
India, however, refrained from conveying anything definitive with the Ministry of Extern Affairs saying, “India has noted the verdict announced by the ‘International Crimes Tribunal of Bangladesh’ concerning former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina. The War Crimes Tribunal in a fast trial held Ms. Subsequently, Bangladesh sent a diplomatic note to India seeking extradition of Ms. Hasina. As a close neighbour, India remains committed to the best interests of the people of Bangladesh, including in peace, democracy, inclusion and stability in that country. We will always engage constructively with all stakeholders to that end. Ms. Hasina in a statement had rejected the verdict blaming the interim government for being the force behind it. She sought a trial in an international court. Maxon was apprehended from West Bengal where he was staying with an assumed identity.
The number of the dead in the police and security forces crackdown is around 1,400, according to a UN report. Hasina guilty of crimes against humanity and delivered a death penalty on her as well as the Home Minister of Awami League government Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal on November 17, 2025. Commentators had also pointed out that in order to ensure fair trial, the International Crimes (Tribunal) Act 1973 also requires amendments in order to ensure fair trial in cases. Among the famous cases that were handled using this extradition treaty was the case of Noor Nabi Maxon of 2022 who was accused of eleven murder cases.
According to diplomatic sources Dhaka and New Delhi have been using the extradition treaty to hand over smaller offenders and criminals to each other as the extradition treaty is the “only functioning instrument” through which extradition of wanted individuals is possible bilaterally between the two states.
