[9] On 9 January 2003, Bangladesh government created an indemnity law, that provided legal protection to security personnel who participated in the operation.

[citation needed] Z I Khan Panna, a lawyer of the Bangladesh Supreme Court, had filed a petition against the indemnity ordinance on 14 June 2012.

Ejarul Haque Akondo asked the government of Bangladesh to explain why it should not declare the ordinance illegal and order it pay 1 billion taka compensation to the victims.

[4] In November 2015, the Bangladesh High Court declared the indemnity ordinance illegal and scrapped it.

[4] Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina referred to Operation Clean Heart when defending her administrations record on human rights on 16 August 2020 following criticism by Bangladesh Nationalist Party which was in power when the operation was launched.