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India unlikely to extradite former PM Sheikh Hasina to Bangladesh

New Delhi doesn't want to send 'wrong message' to the world that it doesn't 'stand by friends'

Sheikh Hasina
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Sheikh Hasina, the former prime minister of Bangladesh

Satarupa Bhattacharjya New Delhi

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India is unlikely to accept Dhaka’s request to extradite Sheikh Hasina, the former prime minister of Bangladesh, who was ousted in a student-led movement and fled her country in August last year. She has since been living in self-exile in New Delhi.
 
An Indian government official, with knowledge of the matter, told Business Standard that if India were to agree, a wrong message would go to the world, especially to other countries in the region — “friends and foes alike”.
 
The official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, said: “What signal would we be sending — that we don’t