India, June 2 -- The indictment of former Bangladesh PM Sheikh Hasina by a tribunal on Sunday for ordering a police crackdown on protestors last year coincided with a Bangladesh Supreme Court order directing the Election Commission to restore the registration of the Jamaat-e-Islami as a political party.

The International Crimes Tribunal, set up by Hasina's government in 2009 to investigate crimes during Bangladesh's war of liberation in 1971, indicted her along with former home minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal and senior police official Chowdhury Abdullah Al-Mamun for what prosecutors said was a "coordinated, widespread and systematic attack" on students and other activists whose protests led to the ouster of the Awami League regime last ...