HC issues notice to Home Ministry on PIL
Chandigarh, Jul 29 (UNI) Punjab and Haryana High Court today issued notices to Union Home Ministry, the External Affairs ministry among others for September 8 on a PIL seeking directions for immediate release and also repatriation of 51 prisoners of foreign origin lodged at the Amritsar Central Jail as they had all completed their sentences.
The notices were issued by a Division Bench of Chief Justice Vijender Jain and Justice Mahesh Grover while hearing the PIL filed by Amritsar based advocate Ajay Kumar Virmani.
Mr
Virmani
had
secured
this
information
from
authorities
concerned
under
the
Right
to
Information
Act.
A
majority
of
these
51
prisoners
were
from
Pakistan,
Afghanistan
and
Bangaldesh
who
were
apprehended
mainly
for
offences
under
the
Indian
Passport
Act.
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