Google Maps picture locates the Indian Excessive Fee in Dhaka. “Over the previous few months, over two dozen protests have taken place in shut proximity to the Indian Excessive Fee in Dhaka,” officers stated.
India needed to withdraw the dependents and members of the family of officers from its missions in Bangladesh due to the “deteriorating” regulation and order state of affairs within the nation, with Indian posts dealing with a sustained risk of mob assault for the previous few months, in accordance with Indian officers.
They emphasised that it is a “precautionary” measure, as tensions escalate forward of the February 12 election. The withdrawal of dependents and households from missions in Bangladesh won’t affect diplomatic and consular actions, officers instructed The Hindu.
“The choice to declare Dhaka as a ‘non-family’ station was a precautionary measure given the deteriorating safety state of affairs. Over the previous few months, over two dozen protests have taken place in shut proximity to the Indian Excessive Fee in Dhaka. Additional, on 18th December, on the Assistant Excessive Fee of India in Chittagong, protesters pelted stones on the premises,” an official supply stated, highlighting the heightened threats confronted by Indian posts in Bangladesh since December 2025
Missions threatened
India-Bangladesh ties hit a brand new hurdle final month with the homicide of Sharif Osman Hadi, an Islamist youth chief who led the unconventional outfit July Mancho. After Mr. Hadi was shot on December 12, there have been allegations that his murderers had fled to India. Because the rumours and allegations unfold on-line, the Indian Excessive Fee in Dhaka and Assistant Excessive Commissions in Chittagong, Khulna, and Rajshahi confronted threats. Tit-for-tat incidents had been additionally reported from Agartala, Kolkata, and New Delhi, the place protesters raised slogans exterior the Bangladesh Excessive Fee throughout the identical time.
Officers right here stated the security issues raised by Dhaka relating to Bangladesh’s missons in India in December had been addressed adequately, noting that India continues to keep up a “heightened police presence” on the highway resulting in the Bangladesh Excessive Fee in New Delhi’s diplomatic enclave.
India is constantly monitoring developments inside Bangladesh, officers stated, with tensions anticipated to escalate because the Awami League led by deposed Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, which is banned in Bangladesh, has restarted its actions from Indian soil. A serious press interplay was organised by Awami League leaders on January 17 and the same media engagement is predicted to happen in New Delhi later this week.
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