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India connected Sunday (December 21, 2025) suspended visa operations astatine the Indian Visa Application Centre successful Bangladesh’s second-largest city, Chittagong, until further announcement successful the aftermath of heightened tensions pursuing the decease of salient younker person Sharif Osman Hadi, section media reported.
Hadi, a salient person of the student-led protests past twelvemonth that led to the ouster of the premier curate Sheikh Hasina-led Awami League government, was a campaigner for the scheduled February 12 wide elections.
He was changeable successful the caput connected December 12 by masked gunmen astatine an predetermination run successful cardinal Dhaka’s Bijoynagar area. He died portion undergoing attraction successful Singapore connected Thursday (December 18).
His decease triggered attacks and vandalism crossed Bangladesh, including stone-hurling astatine the Assistant Indian High Commissioner’s residence successful Chattogram connected Thursday (December 18).
Indian visa applications successful Chittagong person been suspended indefinitely, the Indian Visa Application Centre (IVAC) was quoted arsenic saying by The Dhaka Tribune newspaper connected Sunday (December 21).
The determination came into effect connected Sunday (December 21) pursuing a caller information incidental astatine the Assistant High Commission of India successful Chittagong.
According to the IVAC, each Indian visa-related services successful the larboard metropolis volition stay closed from December 21 until further notice.
The connection added that a further announcement volition beryllium made regarding the reopening of the visa exertion centre aft a reappraisal of the information situation.
On December 20, information was strengthened astatine the Indian Assistant High Commission bureau and the visa exertion centre successful Bangladesh’s Sylhet city.
The enhanced information measures were enactment successful spot to guarantee that “no 3rd enactment tin exploit the situation”, Additional Deputy Commissioner (Media) of the Sylhet Metropolitan Police Saiful Islam was quoted arsenic saying by The Dhaka Tribune paper connected Saturday (December 20).
Hadi, 32, was laid to remainder connected Saturday (December 20) amid extra-tight information beside the sedate of National Poet Kazi Nazrul Islam adjacent the Dhaka University mosque.
Tens of thousands of radical attended the ceremonial prayers, and up of the ritual, they chanted anti-India slogans similar “Delhi oregon Dhaka - Dhaka, Dhaka” and “brother Hadi’s humor volition not beryllium allowed to spell successful vain”.
