Bangladesh on Monday urged India to immediately hand over its former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina , who was earlier in the day sentenced to death by a tribunal that found her guilty of crimes against humanity.

Dhaka also demanded the extradition of the country’s former interior minister, Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal, to Bangladesh, India Today reported.

The tribunal on Monday sentenced the former interior minister as well to death. Both Hasina and Kamal were tried in absentia, and are believed to be in India.

The Bangladesh Ministry of Foreign Affairs said that handing over Hasina and Kamal was a “mandatory duty” for India under the existing extradition treaty.

The acting head of Bangladesh’s law ministry, Asif Nazrul , was quoted by Al-Jazeera as saying: “If India continues to giv

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