Former diplomat Ashok Sajjanhar has criticised the death sentence given to the ousted Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and said “no evidence” has been presented in the court.

He said Hasina had no personal role to play in the violence and deaths that took place in Bangladesh during the student-led protests, which led to her ousting.

Hasina, 78, was tried in absentia, having been exiled in India since she was ousted from power in July 2024, and given the death sentence for “committing crimes against humanity.”

“In terms of how it has been justified because you know what Sheikh Hasina has also said that it is very regrettable. It is very tragic that all these deaths have taken place, but that she had no personal role, no individual role to play in that in any of that. And she said

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