India has confirmed it is reviewing Bangladesh’s request to extradite former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, who has been hiding in India since her government was toppled in August 2024.
According to India’s foreign ministry, the request—first sent in December and renewed this month after Hasina received a death sentence for the killing of student protesters— is currently going through India’s legal and judicial procedures.
Hasina, 78, escaped to India during massive nationwide protests that ended her long and increasingly authoritarian rule. After a Bangladeshi court convicted her of crimes against humanity, Dhaka urged New Delhi to act, saying India had a “responsibility under the bilateral treaty” to return her.
Bangladesh has remained deeply unstable since Hasina’s ouster, with ongoing political violence and rising tensions ahead of the February 2026 elections. The United Nations reported that up to 1,400 people were killed during Hasina’s attempts to suppress protests, a key part of the case against her.
Relations between the two neighbours were strained after Hasina’s fall, despite India having long supported her administration. But diplomatic engagement improved slightly this week after Bangladesh’s National Security Adviser Khalilur Rahman met Indian NSA Ajit Doval during a regional security summit.
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