A voice note of ousted Bangladesh premier Sheikh Hasina describing how she and her sister escaped death when she fled the country last August has been shared online by her Awami League party. In a trembling voice, the 77-year-old leader is heard praising Allah for saving her as she accused her political opponents of conspiring to get her killed.

Ms Hasina has been in Delhi since she fled Dhaka with her sister Rehana on August 5 last year after resigning as the prime minister, minutes before a mob ran over her palatial bungalow.

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“We escaped death by just 20-25 minutes. I feel surviving the killings on August 21, surviving the bomb in Kotalipara, or surviving on August 5, 2024, there must be a will of Allah, hand of Allah. Otherwise, I wouldn’t have survived this time,” she is heard saying in Bangla in the audio clip.

She was referring to the August 21, 2004 grenade attack, which she escaped with injuries, but resulted in the death of at least 24 people. Another instance she cited was of the Kotalipara bomb conspiracy, in which bombs were found in July 2000 at a college where Ms Hasina was supposed to visit.

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Ms Hasina, who is wanted in Bangladesh for corruption, said in her audio message the world had seen how her opponents conspired to kill her. But she survived, she asserted, since she believes Allah wants her to do something more.

The former premier broke down as she continued, “I am suffering, I am without my country, my home, everything has been burned.”

Bangladesh has requested to extradite Ms Hasina and while the Indian foreign ministry has confirmed receiving a note in this regard, they did not offer any comment on it.

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Ms Hasina, the daughter of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, led the charge in Bangladesh until August 5 when a students’ movement turned violent. Facing a risk to life, she resigned and flew to India – a country that shared good relations with her family – with her sister Rehana. Minutes later, a mob entered and ransacked her home, stealing from and vandalizing the empty bungalow.

The period saw political clashes involving Ms Hasina’s allies as well as attacks on the Hindu minorities – which led to a strain in ties between India and Bangladesh.

An interim government led by Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus, backed by their armed forces, is now in power in the neighbouring country.

The Enforcement Directorate on Friday said it has attached more than 140 units of immovable assets worth about Rs 300 crore in a MUDA-linked money laundering case involving Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah and others.

The attachment is part of a money laundering probe into alleged irregularities in land allotment by Mysuru Urban Development Authority (MUDA).

The attached properties are registered in the name of various individuals who are working as real-estate businessmen and agents, the federal agency said in a statement.

“It is alleged that Siddaramaiah (a Congress leader) used his political influence to get compensation for 14 sites in the name of his wife Smt. BM Parvathi in lieu of 3 acres 16 guntas of land acquired by MUDA.

“The land was originally acquired by MUDA for Rs 3,24,700. The compensation in the form of 14 sites at posh locality is worth Rs 56 crore,” the agency said.

The chief minister, who has been questioned by the Karnataka Lokayukta in this case, has repeatedly denied any wrongdoing by him or his family, saying the opposition was “scared” of him and that these were politically motivated charges.

The role of ex-MUDA commissioner D B Natesh has emerged as “instrumental” in the illegal allotment of compensation sites to Parvathi, the agency said.

It said searches conducted in the case found that a large number of sites, other than the 14 allotted to Parvathi, have been “illegally” allotted by the MUDA as compensation to real estate businessmen, who in turn have sold these sites at “huge” profit and generated huge amount of “unaccounted” cash.

The profit so generated has been “laundered” and shown as derived out of legitimate sources, it claimed.

Sites have been allotted in the name of “benami and dummy” persons of influential names and real estate businessmen, the agency alleged.

Incriminating “evidence” regarding payment of illegal gratification to then MUDA chairman and MUDA Commissioner in the form of immovable property, MUDA sites, cash, etc., were recovered during the raids, it alleged.

It has also been found that money was routed through a co-operative society for purchase of property, luxury vehicles etc in the name of relatives of G T Dinesh Kumar, who was the previous commissioner of MUDA, the agency alleged.

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