The Tripura Police on Tuesday persons and suspended three police officers in connection with the vandalism of the Bangladesh Assistant High Commission in Agartala a day earlier, The Indian Express reported.

Protestors from a group called the Hindu Sangharsh Samiti on Monday breached the security arrangements at the diplomatic mission, pulled down Bangladesh’s national flag and damaged property.

Departmental proceedings have been initiated for negligence against the three suspended police officers, identified as Sub-Inspectors Dilu Jamatia and Joynal Hossain and Sergeant Debabrata Sinha.

Additional security personnel were deployed and patrolling was carried out near the diplomatic mission.

The suspected assailants have been charged with assaulting public servants on duty, unlawful assembly, rioting and criminal trespassing under the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita.

The Hindu Sangharsh Samiti was protesting the arrest of Hindu leader in the Bangladeshi city of Chittagong on November 25. The monk was arrested on sedition charges after he allegedly insulted Bangladesh’s national flag during a rally in Chittagong on October 25.

Das is the spokesperson of the Sammilito Sanatani Jagaron Jote, an organisation that advocates for the rights of Hindus and other minorities in Bangladesh. He was formerly associated with the West Bengal-based International Society for Krishna Consciousness, or ISKCON.

On Monday, India’s Ministry of External Affairs said that the vandalism of the diplomatic...