T he Muhammad Yunus-led interim government in Dhaka’s call to extradite Sheikh Hasina following the International Criminal Tribunal (ICT) death sentence for her and former Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal poses diplomatic and security challenges for India. The Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) has “noted” the verdict and reaffirmed New Delhi’s commitment to engage constructively with all stakeholders in Bangladesh—a diplomatic way of saying ‘no’.

The ICT, a domestic war crimes tribunal set up by Hasina in 2009 to prosecute those responsible for the 1971 genocide committed by the Pakistan Army and local collaborators—Razakars, Al-Badr and Al-Shams—became a contentious issue, fuelling anti-government protests and calls to scrap it. In December 2012, the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (B

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