Overview
- The Indian Assistant High Commission’s protocol officer, Naren Dhar, 38, was found unresponsive inside the Chattogram compound on Tuesday, prompting police to recover the body for an autopsy.
- Police said the body was discovered in front of a bathroom door on the second floor of the mission’s old visa centre building.
- Following a post-mortem on Wednesday, Chattogram police handed the remains to the Indian High Commission, which has placed the body in cold storage and is preparing repatriation.
- Officials reported no visible injury marks and said they suspect a natural cause such as cardiac arrest, with the exact cause to be confirmed by the autopsy report.
- Khulshi Police registered an unnatural-death case, a routine step in Bangladesh that triggers an inquest, a state autopsy at Chattogram Medical College Hospital, and formal handover to the mission.