Sheikh Hasina Extradition News: The senior Bangladesh police officer, Baharul Alam, said he expected Interpol soon to issue a notice against people sought by ICT, including former Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina. Meanwhile, the interim government in Bangladesh has revoked the passports of Hasina and another 96 about his alleged participation in ‘forced disappearances’ and the ‘murders of July’.
Bangladesh officially wanted the extradition of Hasina, since he wanted him to be judged by positions of mass murders during the movement of anti-discriminatory students called the Julio-Agosto uprising.
The Bangladesh International Crime Court, which was formed following Bangladesh’s liberation war to prove the hardened collaborators of the atrocities of the Pakistani troops, has so far issued two arrest orders that order the authorities that will arrest Hasina and guarantee their appearance in court before February 12.
Currently, the interim government in Bangladesh has been trying to bring Hasina and others from India under the extradition treaty.
The domestic advisor, MD Jahangir Alam Chowdhury, said Wednesday: “We are trying to bring those who are tried for charges of crimes against humanity in ICT.”
His comments occurred when he answered a question about the steps taken by the Government to arrest more than 100 defendants against whom ICT issued arrest orders.
Last year, Bangladesh sent a diplomatic note to New Delhi in search of Hasina extradition. “We are stopping those who stay in the country. The main person (Hasina) is not in the country. How would we arrest them that are abroad?” He said, he added that the legal efforts are going to bring them back.
Meanwhile, the Superior Court acquitted on Wednesday at 47 people, who were sentenced in a case presented by an attack against a train that takes Hasina, the then opposition leader, in Ishwardi on September 23, 1994, according to a report. A Bank of Judges Muhammad Mahbub Ul Islam and MD Hamidur Rahman delivered the sentence after hearing the death references and appeals from the convicted prison.
When qualifying the judgment of the Inhuman lower court, the Superior Court ordered the immediate release of the acquittal. The lower court had sentenced nine people to death, 25 people to life imprisonment and another 13 to 10 years in jail.
(With PTI inputs)
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