Bangladesh's former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina stated that the killing of student Sharif Osman Hadi was a tragic consequence of lawlessness under the interim government, not linked to India. She dismissed claims connecting the assassination to India as baseless and politically motivated, attributing them to fundamentalist forces exploiting the event. Hasina asserted that the killing has been used as a political tool to inflame tensions and distract from the interim government's failures in maintaining law and order.