HC stays deportation of Indian native to Pakistan

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Jodhpur, Nov 27 (UNI) The Rajasthan High Court has stayed the deportation of a native of Jaisalmer district to Pakistan, who strayed into the neighbouring country by mistake and had to spend 17 years there, till the status of his citizenship is decided.

Hakim Khan, 55, a resident of Satiyaya village in Pokhran tehsil in Jaisalmer district strayed into Pakistan while grazing his cattle. The Pakistani Rangers arrested him and kept him in a jail for a year.

When the Pakistani Rangers tried to deport him, Indian Army refused to take him in as he did not possess a passport and a visa.

Hakim then had to spend 17 years in Pakistan, making his both ends meet as a beggar.

The Pakistani government gave him a passport and a visa in May 2006 and he returned to India on a Pakistani visa on October 10. But his visa expired on November 24 and the CID (Intelligence) asked him to leave India.

Then Hakim filed a petition in the court that he has a ration card, bank account land and his family in India and that the status of his citizenship must be decided.

A bench comprising Justices N N Mathur and Manak Mohta heard the petition on November 22 and issued notices to the Union and State Home Secretaries and Superintendent of Police CID (Int) and barred the authorities from sending him back to Pakistan till his status on citizenship is clear.

Under Section 9/2 of Indian Citizenship Act, when an Indian gets passport of any other country of his own accord, he no longer remains an Indian citizen. But if he gets the passport and visa of any other country under any forceful circumstances, then the status of Indian citizenship is decided by the Union government.

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