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Indian High Commissioner to Bangladesh Pranay Verma has been summoned to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The high commissioner entered the MoFA around 4pm on Tuesday. When asked, Foreign Adviser Md Touhid Hossain said the Indian envoy has been asked to come. The Indian high commissioner is in a meeting with acting Foreign Secretary Riaz Hamidullah.
Additional security measures have been taken around the Ministry of Foreign Affairs with the deployment of army and police personnel.
Bangladesh authorities on Monday said it "deeply resents" the "violent demonstration and attack" by a large group of protesters of the Hindu Sangharsh Samity of Agartala on the premises of the Assistant High Commission of Bangladesh.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs, in a statement, underlined that this "heinous attack" on a diplomatic mission of Bangladesh and desecration of the national flag of Bangladesh comes in a pattern, further to a similar violent demonstration in Kolkata on 28 November 2024.
"This particular act in Agartala stands in violation of the inviolability of diplomatic missions, as the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations, 1961, asks for," the ministry said.
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