Killing of Hindu youth in Bangladesh is ‘horrendous’, says MEA

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India on Sunday (December 21, 2025) described the killing of a minority Hindu youth in Bangladesh as a “horrendous act” and expressed “strong concern” about the safety of minority communities in the neighbouring country.The Official Spokesperson of the Ministry of External Affairs, Randhir Jaiswal, also dismissed reports in media in Dhaka about threats to Bangladesh’s diplomats in India, terming such reports as “misleading propaganda”. The Ministry’s remarks drew a quick response, with Foreign Affairs Adviser of the interim Bangladesh government, Touhid Hossein, saying “such incidents occur in all countries” of the South Asian region and that Bangladesh had already arrested several suspects in the case. Published - December 21, 2025 03:20 pm IST