Bangladesh on Friday sought assistance from New Delhi to track down six fugitive ex-army officers believed to be hiding in different countries, including India, for the assassination of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.
"We have sought Indian assistance in tracking down and arrest the remaining killers," Home Minister Sahara Khatun told media persons as newly appointed Indian High Commissioner in Dhaka Rajeet Mitter called on her at her Bangladesh Secretariat office.
Five other fellow convicts were hanged for the August 15, 1975 assassination of country's founder Rahman, who is popularly known as 'Bangabandhu' or "friend of Bengal".
Asked if they discussed the return of at least two of the absconding leaders who were reportedly hiding or languishing in jails in India, Khatun said, "We have also discussed the matter."
"We asked India to return them if they really are staying there," Khatun said.
Bangladesh and India currently do not have any extradition treaties, but the two countries in recent years exchanged a number of Indian separatist elements and Bangladesh gangsters who had taken refuge in each other's countries to evade justice at home.
The Home Minister's comments came as Bangladesh intensified a diplomatic campaign also engaging the Interpol to return six fugitive
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