India shuts Chittagong visa operations as tensions rise

NEW DELHI: India deed retired astatine Bangladesh and suspended visa operations astatine its ngo successful Chittagong connected Sunday, amid a question of protests determination with an anti-India hue sparked by the decease of extremist activistic Sharif Osman Hadi, which has seen the lynching of a Hindu man.Describing arsenic "horrend-ous" the sidesplitting of 25-year-old Dipu Chandra Das, a garment mill idiosyncratic beaten to decease by a mob and acceptable ablaze for alleged blasphemy, MEA slammed attempts successful Bangladesh to gully mendacious equivalence betwixt protests targeting its facilities successful that state and the 1 extracurricular the Bangladesh ngo successful Delhi.India's adjunct precocious committee successful Chittagong suspended visa operations implicit interest for information of the centre's unit and premises successful presumption of aggravated protests, which saw demonstrators travel adjacent to the diplomatic installation connected Thursday contempt beingness of Bangladesh information personnel.

Bring to justness perpetrators of Dipu’s ‘barbaric killing’, New Delhi tells Dhaka

Due to the caller information incident, Indian visa oper-ations astatine IVAC Chittagong volition stay suspended from Dec 21, 2025, until further notice, the Indian Visa Appli-cation Centre (IVAC) said successful a statement.

MEA spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal successful Delhi urged the interim govt successful Dhaka to bring to justness the perpetrators of the “barbaric killing” of Dipu, starring Bangladesh to protest.“The incidental should not beryllium conflated with the information of minorities,” overseas affairs advisor Md Touhid Hossain said successful Dhaka, adding, “He was a Bangladeshi national who was killed, and Bangladesh took contiguous action.

Several arrests person already been made.”He besides claimed that the protests successful New Delhi near the “Bangladesh precocious commissioner and his household feeling threatened”.The adjunct Indian precocious Commissioner’s residence successful Chittagong was pelted with stones by a mob connected Thursday, the time Hadi died days aft being changeable successful caput by masked gunmen. Thursday besides saw monolithic “anti-India” protests extracurricular the adjunct Indian precocious commissions successful Khulna and Rajshahi, and connected Wednesday, astir the precocious committee successful Dhaka.In an evident effort to suggest that the Bangladesh precocious committee successful New Delhi faced a information menace of akin severity, media reports Bangladesh said a objection by “Hindu extremists” extracurricular the installation implicit Dipu’s decease successful Mymensingh threatened its security, drafting a crisp rejoinder from the MEA.India trashed specified claims arsenic “misleading propaganda”. There was “no effort to breach the obstruction oregon make a information concern astatine immoderate time,” the MEA said, adding constabulary dispersed the radical aft a fewer minutes and ocular grounds of these events is publically available.

“We person noted misleading propaganda successful sections of the Bangladesh media connected the incident,” Jaiswal said.The MEA said astir 20-25 youths had gathered extracurricular the Bangladesh precocious committee connected Saturday and raised slogans successful protestation against the “horrendous killing” of Dipu.“India continues to support a adjacent ticker connected the evolving concern successful Bangladesh. Our officials stay successful interaction with Bangladesh authorities and person conveyed to them our beardown concerns astatine the attacks connected minorities,” Jaiswal said.Pictures of the 2 protests pointed retired the opposition arsenic aggravated protesters came successful adjacent proximity to the Indian installation successful Chittagong, portion a overmuch smaller assemblage stood successful protestation astatine a harmless region from the Bangladesh precocious commission.Exiled Bangladeshi writer Taslima Nasreen had connected Saturday introduced different magnitude to the horrific sidesplitting of Dipu, claiming connected X that constabulary had initially rescued him from the mob and asked if constabulary with sympathies for extremists handed him backmost to the convulsive assemblage determined to termination oregon they were overpowered.

“They held a full-blown solemnisation — beating Dipu, hanging him, burning him — a jihadist festival,” she said.On Sunday, 2 much persons were held successful the Mymensingh lynching case, taking the full arrests to 12.Internal concern has deteriorated successful Bangladesh aft the decease of Haidi, a salient look successful 2024 anti-govt protests that led to past PM Sheikh Hasina abdicating & fleeing to India. Known for his anti-India utterances, helium was a person of extremist radical Inquilab Mancho & had shared a representation of greater Bangladesh that showed India’s northbound eastbound arsenic portion of his country.