NEW DELHI, Oct. 30 -- With a Bangladeshi war crimes court widely expected to deliver its verdict in a case against former premier Sheikh Hasina by mid-November, her Awami League party has approached the International Criminal Court (ICC) to launch an investigation into "retaliatory violence" against party officials since July 2024.

The developments have come at a time when the interim government headed by Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus, which assumed power after Hasina's regime was ousted by student-led demonstrations in August last year, has begun preparations for holding a general election in February 2026.

The International Crimes Tribunal, a domestic war crimes court set up in Bangladesh in 2009, has concluded proceedings against Has...