An Indian protocol officer of the Assistant High Commission at Khulshi in Bangladesh’s Chattogram was found dead inside the premises, prompting the local police to launch an investigation into the death. The deceased was identified as Naren Dhar (35) and belonged to Haryana.According to the Chattogram police, mission officials alerted the local authorities after Naren failed to respond from inside his room on Tuesday. The body was subsequently sent to the Chittagong Medical College Hospital for autopsy.“We have been told he was Naren Dhar and serving as the assistant protocol officer at the mission,” said the port city’s police spokesman, Aminur Rashid. He said the body was found in front of a bathroom door early in the morning on the second floor of the old visa centre building of the diplomatic mission.The Indian High Commission in Dhaka, or the Assistant High Commission in Chattogram has so far made no comment on the death, which the police initially suspected could have been caused by a cardiac arrest. “The postmortem report, however, will confirm the cause of the death,” said Rashid, also the Assistant Police Commissioner of the city. He said police reached the scene immediately after receiving the news in the morning and sent the body to state-run Chattogram Medical College Hospital morgue for autopsy after accomplishing required formalities since he was a foreign national serving at the diplomatic mission.