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The Bangladesh High Commission successful New Delhi has stopped issuing visas citing “prevailing information situation”, a diplomatic root told The Hindu connected Monday (December 22, 2025). The improvement came aft India shuttered its visa exertion centres successful Bangladesh that were targeted by mobs pursuing the death of extremist person Sharif Osman Hadi who was changeable connected December 12 by unidentified gunmen.
Over the weekend, determination were crisp exchanges betwixt the 2 sides aft a radical of men came to the main gross of the Bangladesh ngo present and shouted slogans. They allegedly hurled threats astatine the diplomats who were contiguous connected the ngo premises.
The incidental was reported by the Bangladesh media which prompted the Indian broadside to respond with the External Affairs Ministry describing the quality reports arsenic “misleading propaganda”. The Bangladesh Ministry of Foreign Affairs described the incidental extracurricular its High Commission arsenic an “unjustifiable incident”.
In the 15 months pursuing the autumn of the Sheikh Hasina authorities connected August 5, 2024, issuance of visas betwixt the 2 sides has been repeatedly affected, but this is the archetypal clip that Bangladesh has suspended visa services from its High Commission successful New Delhi.
India had suspended its visa installation successful Dhaka for the archetypal clip successful July-August 2024 erstwhile the anti-Hasina uprising was astatine its peak. Subsequently, visa services were paused connected aggregate occasions though, according to officials, India had started issuing astir 2,000 visas regular for Bangladeshis by November this year.
However, the latest indefinite suspension of the Indian Visa Application Centres (IVACs) came aft the facilities successful Khulna and Chittagong, and the Assistant High Commission successful Rajshahi were targeted by mobs successful the aftermath of Hadi’s decease and amidst rumours that the suspected assassins had fled to India.
However, Bangladesh’s Home Affairs Adviser Lt. General Mohammed Jahangir Alam Chowdhury (retd.) said connected Monday that the authorities bash not person precise accusation astir the whereabouts of the killers.
Earlier, connected Monday evening, the Assistant High Commission of Bangladesh successful Agartala announced that “due to unavoidable circumstances each visa and consular services” astatine the ngo would “remain closed” from Tuesday (December 23, 2025). A objection was held extracurricular the committee connected Sunday with section governmental leaders calling for shutting it down. Protesters had stormed the ngo successful the archetypal week of December 2024 erstwhile ties betwixt the 2 countries had nosedived successful the aboriginal days of the interim authorities led by Muhammad Yunus.
