The International Criminal Court (ICT) in Bangladesh on Monday (November 17, 2025) sentenced former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to death. After this decision of ICT, Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) Senior Joint Secretary General Ruhul Kabir Rizvi has made allegations targeting India regarding Sheikh Hasina.

BNP leader accuses India of Sheikh Hasina

BNP leader Ruhul Kabir Rizvi alleged that India is creating an opportunity for subversion and tension in Bangladesh by giving shelter to ousted former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina. He said, ‘India has given shelter to a fugitive criminal from Bangladesh, along with this the country is giving her (Sheikh Hasina) an opportunity to carry out sabotage against Bangladesh and this is not legal behavior on the part of India. This is very unfortunate.

BNP leader Ruhul Rizvi made this comment while answering a question at a press conference held in Nayapaltan on Monday (November 17, 2025).

India gave shelter to illegal person- BNP leader

The BNP leader said that in a country like India, where democracy rules and an independent judiciary is established, Sheikh Hasina should not get any kind of leeway to indulge in any wrong activity. He said, ‘Giving shelter to an illegal person and allowing him to freely cause havoc within Bangladesh can never be accepted.’

Rizvi has alleged that the person being prosecuted under the laws of Bangladesh is issuing instructions independently from India and those instructions have no legal basis. He said that Sheikh Hasina is asking people in Bangladesh to burn and destroy properties and such orders are clearly illegal. If India calls itself a democratic country then how can it allow this to happen?

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Bangladesh’s International Crime Tribunal (ICT) on Tuesday (August 12, 2025) dismissed the petition to allow senior advocate ZI Khan Panna of the Supreme Court to represent former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina. The matter is related to anti -humanity crimes associated with the protests that started in July last year.

Analysts believe that this decision is injustice to the judicial process and has violated Hasina’s right to rescue. Advocate Najnin Nahar filed this application on behalf of Panna.

According to local media, while hearing the petition in the testimony, the Tribunal said that it cannot be accepted. ICT remarked, “The train has already left the station, it is not possible to ride in it by informing the station master. There is no opportunity to appoint a new lawyer in this phase of the case.” The tribunal said that the Supreme Court lawyer Amir Hussain has already been appointed by the state to advocate Hasina.,

In which case the case on Sheikh Hasina is going on?

Significantly, on August 3, the prosecution started its action against Hasina and two others in the case of anti -human crime in ICT. The co-accused include former Home Minister Asdujman Khan Kamal and former Inspector General of Police (IGP) Chaudhary Abdullah Al Mamoon. After the proceedings, Awami League termed the allegations leveled against his leadership as politically motivated and called it a conspiracy of the illegal interim government led by Mohammad Yunus.

The leader of the Awami League told the Yunus government

Awami League leader Mohammad A. Arafat said, “Neither former Prime Minister Hasina nor he has received a formal information about the case, which reflects the absurd action of this non-elected government. It is part of the conspiracy of a non-elected occupiers, which is desperate to end democratic legitimacy, silence the opposition and remain in power. Such a government has no legal and no moral rights that it has been prosecuted for the public. Parliament has the right to amend the law passed by Parliament. ”

He said that any democratically elected leader should not be prosecuted to perform constitutional duties while facing violent rebellion.

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