Overview
- The Ministry of External Affairs, which briefed reporters Friday, said Bangladesh’s request to extradite Sheikh Hasina is under judicial and internal legal review.
- India said it will work with all stakeholders and plans follow-up meetings through formal channels to deepen cooperation on trade, energy, and security.
- Bangladesh’s foreign minister raised the case with S. Jaishankar in New Delhi on April 8, and Hasina has lived in India since she fled in August 2024.
- A Dhaka tribunal sentenced Hasina and former home minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal to death on November 17, 2025, with the domestic war-crimes court citing crimes against humanity during the 2024 protest crackdown.
- Hasina has urged Bangladeshi authorities to void the death sentence as legally unsound, and Parliament’s new Anti-Terrorism (Amendment) Bill 2026 could enable bans on individuals or groups, which observers say may shape the Awami League’s future.