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Security has been strengthened astatine the Indian Assistant High Commission bureau and the visa exertion centre successful Bangladesh's Sylhet metropolis successful the aftermath of heightened tensions pursuing the death of salient younker person Sharif Osman Hadi, officials said.
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, 2025).
According to police, information was reinforced from Friday greeting astatine the Assistant High Commission bureau located successful Upashahar area, the residence of the Assistant High Commissioner successful the aforesaid locality, and the visa exertion centre successful the Shobhanighat area.
Members of the information forces besides remained deployed passim the night.
Following the decease of Inqilab Mancha spokesperson Hadi connected Thursday, Gano Odhikar Parishad had announced a programme to besiege the Assistant High Commission office.
"Inqilab Mancha had staged a sit-in successful beforehand of the Sylhet Central Shaheed Minar, protesting Hadi’s sidesplitting and raising slogans against what they described arsenic Indian dominance," the study said.
Hadi, a salient person of the student-led protests past twelvemonth that led to the ouster of the Prime Minister 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.
His decease triggered attacks and vandalism crossed Bangladesh, including stone-hurling astatine the Assistant Indian High Commissioner's residence successful Chattogram connected Thursday.
Hadi, 32, was laid to remainder connected Saturday amid extra-tight security 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”.
Just aft the funeral, Hadi's enactment Inqilab Mancha issued a 24-hour ultimatum to the interim government, demanding "visible progress" successful the apprehension of those liable for his killing.
