DHAKA: Bangladesh’s principal opposition occasion BNP on Tuesday urged India to extradite deposed PM Sheikh Hasina to face trial in homicide and different circumstances registered in opposition to her since she took flight on August 5 within the face of a student-led rebellion. “It’s our name to you that it is best to hand her over to authorities of Bangladesh in a authorized approach.
The individuals of this nation have given the choice for her trial.Let her face that trial,” BNP secretary normal Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir stated in Dhaka after paying tribute to the occasion’s founder president Ziaur Rahman.
Alamgir stated Hasina being allowed to take refuge in India is not aligned with the nation’s dedication to upholding democratic ideas. “Staying there, she has began numerous plots to thwart the revolution that occurred in Bangladesh.”
Bangladesh & India have extradition treaty and should hand over individuals in opposition to whom courtroom case is on
Bangladesh and India have extradition treaty primarily based on which they’re required at hand over individuals in opposition to whom proceedings have been initiated in courts for any “extraditable crime”, together with monetary offences liable to ask a minimal punishment of a yr in jail.
BNP, whose ailing chairperson and ex-PM Khaleda Zia was free of home arrest after Hasina fled, stated the homicide and extortion circumstances filed in opposition to the latter had been within the “extraditable” class.
The bilateral treaty is not relevant to circumstances which might be “political in nature”, though this exemption just isn’t out there to these charged with severe crimes like homicide, sources stated.
India can flip down any request for Hasina’s extradition by citing Article 8 of the treaty, which permits the signatories to refuse requests which have “not been made in good religion and within the pursuits of justice”. The BNP secretary normal alleged that Hasina’s Awami League was “nonetheless conspiring in New Delhi to falsify the victory” of scholars and different residents of Bangladesh. “I’m saying this strongly, and we wish to make it clear that I don’t assume that India can get a lot love from the individuals by sheltering the enemy of the individuals of Bangladesh, who needed to flee from the nation,” Alamgir stated.
Awami League has criticised Bangladesh’s interim authorities for circumstances registered in opposition to Hasina, terming them “false and politically motivated”.
The individuals of this nation have given the choice for her trial.Let her face that trial,” BNP secretary normal Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir stated in Dhaka after paying tribute to the occasion’s founder president Ziaur Rahman.
Alamgir stated Hasina being allowed to take refuge in India is not aligned with the nation’s dedication to upholding democratic ideas. “Staying there, she has began numerous plots to thwart the revolution that occurred in Bangladesh.”
Bangladesh & India have extradition treaty and should hand over individuals in opposition to whom courtroom case is on
Bangladesh and India have extradition treaty primarily based on which they’re required at hand over individuals in opposition to whom proceedings have been initiated in courts for any “extraditable crime”, together with monetary offences liable to ask a minimal punishment of a yr in jail.
BNP, whose ailing chairperson and ex-PM Khaleda Zia was free of home arrest after Hasina fled, stated the homicide and extortion circumstances filed in opposition to the latter had been within the “extraditable” class.
The bilateral treaty is not relevant to circumstances which might be “political in nature”, though this exemption just isn’t out there to these charged with severe crimes like homicide, sources stated.
India can flip down any request for Hasina’s extradition by citing Article 8 of the treaty, which permits the signatories to refuse requests which have “not been made in good religion and within the pursuits of justice”. The BNP secretary normal alleged that Hasina’s Awami League was “nonetheless conspiring in New Delhi to falsify the victory” of scholars and different residents of Bangladesh. “I’m saying this strongly, and we wish to make it clear that I don’t assume that India can get a lot love from the individuals by sheltering the enemy of the individuals of Bangladesh, who needed to flee from the nation,” Alamgir stated.
Awami League has criticised Bangladesh’s interim authorities for circumstances registered in opposition to Hasina, terming them “false and politically motivated”.
