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External Affairs Minister Kirti Vardhan Singh said that Dhaka demanded extradition of Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.
The students raised slogans near Dhaka University in the capital during the demand for accountability and testing against Hasina and a barbaric mural of Bangladesh’s state Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in Bangladesh. (Image: Reuters)
India has not responded to the Bangladesh government to the Bangladesh government to extradite Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to his crimes, which he had allegedly committed to India before fleeing India in August 2023.
Kerala CPI (M) Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Kirti Vidhan Singh while answering a question submitted by Rajya Sabha MP John Britis.
Singh replied, “The government of Bangladesh has allegedly sought for the extradition of Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina before coming to India on 5 August 2024. There has been no response to the Bangladesh government.”
According to interim officials coming to power under the leadership of Nobel-Lariat Muhammad Yunus, more than 800 people were killed in a student-led demonstrations for the conclusion of Sheikh Hasina’s government on August 5.
The students protested against a quota system, which was allegedly in favor of Hasina’s party, Awami League, but the protest gradually increased in a movement demanding Hasina’s resignation.
Protests demanded extensive reforms in Bangladeshi economy and politics, but the protests were kidnapped by Islamists and rivals from Awami League, who since last year Hasina’s party for Justices, their sympathy people and Hindus and other minorities They have been subject to members of groups.
Bangladesh filed a case in court to Hasina and her family members, accused of graft, mass murder and also demanded her extradition, alleging unrest in Dhaka from New Delhi. Yunus -headed government has also accused him of disappearing applicable.
After the collapse of Hasina’s government, the interim government has failed to control mob violence and mob justice for Bangladeshi sympathy to him and his party with sympathy.
In January, three rights groups said that mob killings increased in Bangladesh after the August revolution.
The Bangladeshi Human Rights Organization, Ain O Salish Center (ASK) said it had recorded at least 128 people killed by the mob in 2024.
Among them, it happened from 96 August-which means about three-fourths of murders, when Hasina fled from the country.
“Lynching and crowd beating the crowd reflects the increasing intolerance and bigotry in the society,” said Senior Ask member Abu Ahmed Phali Kabir.
Two other human rights organizations reported a similar number – about three times more than the average of the last five years.
The Manabadikar Songscriti Foundation said that it had documented 146 people killed by the mob in 2024, while the Human Rights Support Society recorded 173 deaths.
