Can Bangladesh extradite Sheikh Hasina under the treaty with India | Explained

The story so far: Bangladesh on Sunday (August 16, 2026) urged India to create a “propitiate environment” for enabling Prime Minister Tarique Rahman’s visit to India by extraditing deposed PM Sheikh Hasina. Ms. Hasina who has been based in India since fleeing Dhaka on August 5, 2024, addressed a press conference on August 5, 2026, at the Foreign Correspondents Club in Delhi during which she said, “Fear has returned to Bangladesh.” The press conference drew a quick response from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Bangladesh that described Ms. Hasina as a “convicted genocider” and accused her of “gruesome killing of the innocent civilians including minor children during July-August 2024” uprising in Bangladesh.