New Delhi: The Ministry of External Affairs on Tuesday (November 10) declined to comment on the issue of former prime minister Sheikh Hasina’s return from exile and her application for a passport from the Bangladesh high commission, stating that such travel plans will require a “travel document”.Hasina, who has lived in self-imposed exile in India for two years since she was ousted in a mass uprising, had approached the Bangladesh mission in New Delhi seeking a passport and a national identity card to facilitate her return in December, the Awami League party said on Monday. Hasina’s passport was revoked by Bangladesh after she fled to India.The request, however, was dismissed by Dhaka. Bangladesh’s minister of state for foreign affairs Humayun Kabir said that the government does not issue passports to “terrorists”, reiterating their demand for her extradition.Later, the Awami League – which was barred from contesting the February general elections in Bangladesh – also cited the Delhi-based Rights and Risks Analysis Group NGO as arguing that Dhaka was violating Hasina’s rights by denying her the right to return to her home country.Speaking on the matter at the press briefing on Tuesday, MEA spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal said, “This is a question that you must pose to the Bangladeshi High Commission. This is a matter in which they would be in a better position to convey what is the sense they have on this particular issue.”Further responding to a question on Bangladesh’s demand for Hasina’s extradition, Jaiswal said that India has maintained its position that this is “a legal matter, and it will be dealt with accordingly”.Bangladesh’s military sent Hasina to India after the student-led protests forced her from power on August 5, 2024. A special tribunal in 2025 sentenced her to death for crimes against humanity, ruling that she was responsible for ordering the crackdown, which left hundreds of people dead and thousands of others injured.On Chinese vloggersMeanwhile, the MEA also condemned the alleged coordinated anti-India campaign, reportedly by filming videos in impoverished areas of Dhaka for months and portraying the locations as parts of New Delhi during livestreams on Chinese social media platforms.“We have seen media reports in this regard. Such efforts to present a distorted picture of any country are unfortunate,” Jaiswal said.“In so far as efforts by foreign elements to portray Dhaka as Delhi are concerned, peddling of false narratives only undermines the credibility of those who are undertaking such actions and those who are behind them. And we would urge that authorities concerned must take action against such people,” he added.Dhaka-based daily Prothom Alo had on November 6 published a report titled “Chinese citizens making live videos from morning till night, even going inside people’s homes”.According to it, residents of Dhaka’s Uttara area had reported that more than 150 Chinese vloggers and livestreamers were filming videos in neighbourhood lanes and alleys, and they had no idea where the videos were being published or what was being said in them. They also alleged that the activities were not being monitored by the local police station.However, an analysis showed that these videos were allegedly falsely passing off the footage as scenes from India and making derogatory remarks about living conditions, sanitation and food habits in New Delhi.In one of the videos, Prothom Alo reported, a Chinese woman named Mianmian was standing beside the canal in Sector 12 of Uttara, showing viewers videos of Tekpara in her livestream. However, she reportedly said, “This is New Delhi. Their homes are extremely dirty. There isn’t even a fan inside the tin-roofed houses. This place is quite underdeveloped, dirty and unhygienic, and the law-and-order situation is poor.”