Pakistan national, who stayed in India for 27 years, deported
A 37-year-old Pakistani national, who was illegally staying in India since he was about 10 years of age, has been deported to the neighboring country, a police official said on Wednesday. Siraj Khan, the Pakistani national, was staying in the Antop Hill area in Mumbai. He also got married to an Indian woman some years ago, and the couple has three children. Here's more.
Khan was deported to Pakistan on 12 March
"Since all the cases against Khan were disposed of by the court and one case of violation of a detention order was withdrawn by the government, he was deported to Pakistan on March 12," said a senior inspector. Khan was taken to the Attari border at Amritsar in Punjab, and deported after completion of all formalities at the foreign regional registration office, he added.
His wife accompanied her husband till the Bandra Terminus
The Indian Government had informed the Pakistani authorities about Khan's deportation and after obtaining a no-objection certificate, he was handed over to them. The police had also informed about Khan's deportation to his wife Sajida Khan, who accompanied her husband till the Bandra Terminus in the western suburbs, from where he and the police team boarded the train for Amritsar on 10 March.
Khan's wife filed plea seeking stay on his deportation
In June 2014, a division bench of the Bombay High Court had put a month's stay on Khan's deportation to Pakistan. The court had then observed that since Khan's application, seeking Indian citizenship, was pending before the Ministry of External Affairs, his detention must be stayed until the issue was decided. Khan's wife had filed the plea, seeking a stay on her husband's deportation.
Deportation inevitable as he is convicted under the Foreigners Act
His wife had also sought that Khan be released from detention as his family's financial, physical, and mental condition was worsening. Khan's wife approached the Bombay HC again yesterday, seeking a stay on his deportation. However, a bench of justices RM Savant and SV Kotwal held that since Khan had been convicted under the Foreigners Act, his deportation was inevitable.
