India will never ever extradite Sheikh Hasina back to Bangladesh. Nothing will change that. There is yet another certainty: that the death sentence delivered upon the former Bangladesh Prime Minister in absentia on Monday by a tribunal of questionable legitimacy in Dhaka will plunge the region into a dangerous turbulence unparalleled since the birth of Bangladesh in 1971. India will find itself at the epicentre and should belt up. Bangladesh is strategically vital and we need to get them back in our corner.

No wonder then that it was only close to midnight on Monday, hours after the death sentence was passed, that the Ministry of External Affairs issued a cautious statement. "India has noted the verdict announced by the "International Crimes Tribunal of Bangladesh" (quote marks MEA's) con

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