Bangladesh on Monday formally urged India to immediately extradite former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and her aide Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal, hours after a Dhaka tribunal sentenced the two to death for “crimes against humanity”. India reacted with caution, saying it remained “committed to best interests of people of Bangladesh”.

In a sharply worded statement issued in Dhaka, the Bangladesh Ministry of Foreign Affairs described Hasina and Kamal as “fugitives” convicted of murder linked to last year’s violent crackdown on student protests.

Granting asylum to the two, it warned, would be “highly inappropriate behaviour and a disregard for justice”. Dhaka insisted that New Delhi had a “binding obligation” under bilateral agreements to hand them over.

The statement pressed India not to provide

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