Overview
- Indian High Commissioner Dinesh Trivedi told a Dhaka forum on Saturday that the extradition request is being examined through a legal process that involves the courts, so New Delhi cannot give a time frame for Hasina’s return.
- Trivedi repeated that Hasina arrived on a Bangladesh Air Force aircraft on August 5, 2024 and that Indian military forces did not bring her to India.
- Sheikh Hasina has lived in India since her evacuation and was sentenced in absentia by Bangladesh’s International Crimes Tribunal in November 2025 with further convictions issued on September 15, 2026.
- The Rahman government has repeatedly renewed demands for extradition and has said the unresolved case is complicating Prime Minister Tarique Rahman’s planned visit to New Delhi even as technical talks on trade and rivers continue.
- India and Bangladesh rely on a 2013 extradition treaty that allows legal exceptions such as offences of a political character, which helps explain why the treaty and court review could make the process lengthy and leave ordinary Bangladeshis and political opponents facing prolonged uncertainty.