The interim government in Bangladesh said on Monday that it has or an unsigned diplomatic communique, to India formally seeking the extradition of former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, the Dhaka Tribune reported.

“We have conveyed our request for Sheikh Hasina’s return for judicial purposes,” said the country’s Foreign Affairs Adviser Touhid Hossain.

Hasina and forced to flee to India on August 5 amid widespread, student-led protests against her Awami League government. She had been the prime minister of Bangladesh for 16 years.

Nobel laureate economist Muhammad Yunus took over as the head of Bangladesh’s interim government on August 8.

The interim government has said it plans to investigate Hasina in connection with allegations that she ordered the killings and enforced disappearances of dissidents during the public uprising against her regime in July and August. A total of have been filed against her, including 42 for murder.

Earlier on Monday, Bangladesh’s Home Affairs Adviser Lieutenant General (Retired) Mohammed Jahangir Alam Chowdhury that a letter had been sent to India’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs seeking Hasina’s return.

“We have a prisoner exchange agreement with India”, Chowdhury was quoted as saying by the Dhaka Tribune. “It will be carried out under that agreement.”

The signed by the two countries in 2013 states that “extradition may be refused...