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You said that they killed with help of India. What India has to do with Bangladeshis killing Bangladeshis. Mujib was not very friendly to India. So India did not have any direct or Indirect role. Had he trusted India like his daughter, he too would have been saved. Many Bangladeshis were partners in the crime of atrocities of Pakistan army. That incident would have been the aftermath of what happened in 1971 it seems. I don't have much the knowledge of that particular incident.
RAW failed in saving Sheikh Mujib because by that time (1974) they were overconfident.
Rakkhi Bahini was a RAW invention and used RAW advisers as an army raised exclusively as personal army of the Sheikh, to save him and bolster his one party rule organization (BaKSAL). Rakkhi Bahini's uniforms even were ditto copies of that of the Indian Army. To say that the Bangladesh Army command was enraged - was an understatement.
Rakkhi Bahini - in the name of "curb(ing) the insurgency and maintain law and order - became involved in numerous charges of human rights abuse including political killings,[3][4][5] shooting by death squads,[6] and rape.[5] It was seen as the armed wing of the ruling Awami League[1] and it swore an oath of loyalty to Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.[7]
The army sore allegiance to the Sheikh himself, and not the country, Bangladesh.

Jatiya Rakkhi Bahini - Wikipedia
One country, one dynastic autocrat, one party, and one lapdog mini-army to back it all up.
RAW formed this mini-army exclusively to suppress opposition and kill activists of opponent parties like BNP, Jamaat and other parties. So yes - India is responsible. This is all very well-documented.
Rakkhi Bahini was disbanded as soon as the Sheikh's entire cohorts were put to death. Again - another failure of RAW in history, just like the one last year.
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