Sheikh Hasina arriving on Wednesday to condole Suvra Mukherjee's death

Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will pay a seven-hour visit to India on Wednesday to meet President Pranab Mukherjee and condole the death of his wife Suvra Mukherjee.

Hasina will arrive at 8 a.m., after which she will drive straight to Rashtrapati Bhavan to meet President Mukherjee.

She will thereafter go to 13, Talkatora Road, the residence of Mukherjee's son Abhijit Mukherjee to lay a wreath on the body.

Hasina is likely to attend the funeral at the Lodhi Road crematorium at 10 a.m.

She will then meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi at 11.30 a.m. after which she will depart for her country.

In a statement earlier, Hasina said she was profoundly shocked at the demise of Suvra Mukherjee and offered condolences.

She will return to Dhaka on Wednesday afternoon after the funeral, Press Secretary Ihsanul Karim was quoted as saying.

Hasina's sister Sheikh Rehana and Foreign Minister A.H. Mahmood Ali will accompany her.

Mukherjee's wife died on Tuesday following cardiac arrest. Her ancestral home is in Bhadrabila village in Bangladesh's Narail district. Both President Mukherjee and his wife had visited Bhadrabila in March 2013, after he became president.

Bangladesh President Abdul Hamid also mourned Suvra Mukherjee's passing away.