On Monday (9 November) at 12:24 pm, in that post Asif Mahmud wrote, ‘No passport needed, Apa. You have to come not by plane, but in a cage. And that is ready.’

Earlier, in a report, Reuters said that as part of a plan to return to the country next December, Sheikh Hasina has applied for a new passport and national identity card. The Bangladesh Embassy in Delhi or the spokesperson of Prime Minister Tareque Rahman in Dhaka did not immediately comment on the matter.

According to Reuters information, a letter related to Sheikh Hasina's application for a new passport and NID has reached them. This is Hasina's first formal communication after fleeing Bangladesh for India in 2024.

The letter was sent by lawyers of London-based law firm Matrix Chambers. In the letter sent to Priti Rahman, Acting High Commissioner of the Bangladesh Embassy in Delhi, a request was made to issue a new passport and NID for Sheikh Hasina. The letter said it was learned that the interim government and relevant authorities had canceled Sheikh Hasina's previous passport and NID; the lawyers requested that necessary arrangements be made to quickly issue the two new identity documents based on Bangladesh citizenship and in compliance with international human rights obligations.

In August 2024, Sheikh Hasina was ousted in a student-mass uprising. Since then she has been staying in India. In November 2025, the International Crimes Tribunal sentenced her to death in absentia on charges of ordering deadly operations to suppress the movement.