 "Bangladesh PM Sheikh Hasina's official visa has reportedly been cancelled by the US. File Photo/Reuters")
The Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) of Bangladesh has asked India to arrest Sheikh Hasina and send her back to her home country.
In an apparent reference to deaths of protestors, SCBA President AM Mahbub Uddin Khokon said Hasina killed many people in Bangladesh.
Khokon is also the Joint General Secretary of Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), the principal Opposition party of Bangladesh. The party along with the Islamist Jamaat-e-Islami are the primary winners from Hasina’s fall.
The 15-year rule of Hasina came to an unceremonious end on Monday when Hasina resigned and fled Bangladesh for her life. She fled after weeks of mass movement against her reign climaxed on Sunday in which nearly 100 people were killed. As the Bangladesh Army sided with the protestors, Hasina decided to flee for her safety. She is currently in India until she can find a refuge in another country where she may live out her remaining days in exile.
“We want to maintain a good relationship with the people of India. Please, arrest Sheikh Hasina and Sheikh Rehana, who fled the country, and send them back to Bangladesh. Sheikh Hasina has killed many people in Bangladesh,” said Khokon, as per The Daily Star.
Rehna is Hasina’s sister, who fled with her to India.
‘We don’t want emergency’
Khokon has said that the movement was not waged to live under an emergency.
Khokon said there will be protests if emergency is imposed.
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More Shorts“There is talk of issuing a state of emergency. We don’t want a government like that of Moeen U Ahmed and Fakhruddin Ahmed. No one, including the students, wants the state of emergency. They will not accept it and will protest if any initiative is taken to issue it,” said Khokon, as per The Daily Star.
The newspaper further reported Khokon as calling upon the judges who acted politically to resign. He accused them of being biased against BNP.
“Many judges have ordered the remand of BNP men and sentenced them in false cases, breaking their oaths and being overly enthusiastic. HC judges have acquitted Awami League leader Mofazzal Hossain in a case filed for amassing illegal wealth, while BNP leaders Iqbal Hassan Mahmud Tuku and Aman Ullah Aman were imprisoned in similar cases. Judges who have judged politically, breaking their oaths, are unfit to remain as judges. They have no right to stay in their positions. I request them to resign within a week. We will disclose their names if they don’t step down,” said Khokon, as per the newspaper.