The Bangladesh High Commission in New Delhi has stopped issuing visas due to the “prevailing security situation,” a diplomatic source told The Hindu on Monday, December 22, 2025. This move happened after India closed its visa application centres in Bangladesh following attacks by mobs. These attacks came after radical leader Sharif Osman Hadi was shot dead on December 12 by unknown gunmen. Over the weekend, tensions rose when a group of men gathered at the main gate of the Bangladesh mission in New Delhi. They shouted slogans and allegedly threatened diplomats on site. Bangladesh media reported the incident, prompting India’s External Affairs Ministry to call those reports “misleading propaganda.” Bangladesh’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs called the events outside its High Commission “unjustifiable.” Visa issuance between the two countries has been affected many times since the fall of the Sheikh Hasina government in August 2024. However, this is the first time Bangladesh has suspended visa services at its High Commission in New Delhi. India had previously paused its visa services in Dhaka in July and August 2024 during peak anti-Hasina protests. Despite interruptions, India had reached up to 2,000 visas daily for Bangladeshis by November 2025. The latest indefinite suspension of Indian Visa Application Centres (IVACs) followed attacks on facilities in Khulna, Chittagong, and the Assistant High Commission in Rajshahi. These attacks arose amid rumors that the killers of Hadi had fled to India. However, Bangladesh’s Home Affairs Adviser Lt. General Mohammed Jahangir Alam Chowdhury (retd.) said on Monday that the exact location of the assassins remains unknown. On Monday evening, Bangladesh’s Assistant High Commission in Agartala announced that all visa and consular services would remain closed from Tuesday, December 23, 2025, lasting until further notice. Protests have also taken place outside the Agartala mission, with local political leaders demanding its closure. Earlier in December 2024, protesters stormed the Bangladesh mission amid a serious dip in India-Bangladesh relations under the interim government of Muhammad Yunus.