New Delhi needs to take a balanced approach in view of the prevailing trust deficit between India and Bangladesh

The ghosts of the past have returned to haunt former Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina. Bangladesh’s International Crimes Tribunal (ICT), established during her regime in 2010 to punish the Jamaat leaders, has now turned out to be her nemesis. The irony has not been lost on the observers as the interim regime has used the same institution as a tool to hand out a death sentence to her for crimes against humanity. During her regime, which saw a massive crackdown on Islamist elements, the ICT was activated to handle cases involving extremist organisations, and it sentenced several Jamaat leaders to death. The Tribunal was originally conceived by the country’s founder and

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