Sheikh Hasina’s India Stay Extended: Ousted Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s India stay has been extended by the Centre as part of a “long-term arrangement” amid calls for her extradition from Dhaka, official sources told CNN-News18.
Officials privy to the matter said her extended stay was a special arrangement as India has a tradition of taking care of its guests (referring to the Atithi Devo Bhava motto).
They said Hasina had stayed in India previously for a long while following her father’s assassination in 1975.
The news comes a day after the Centre extended Hasina’s Visa and two days after the Bangladesh interim government said it had revoked the passport of the ousted PM and 96 others over their alleged involvement in enforced disappearances and the July killings.
Hasina, 77, has been living in India since August 5 last year when she fled Bangladesh following a massive student-led protest that toppled her Awami League’s (AL) 16-year regime.
Bangladesh’s International Crimes Tribunal (ICT) has issued arrest warrants for Hasina and several former Cabinet ministers, advisers, and military and civil officials for “crimes against humanity and genocide”. ICT has set the deadline for February 12.
