Bengaluru's Accenture Employee Asked To Leave India; SC Stays His Deportation To Pakistan Over Pahalgam Attack

An employee at the Accenture firm in Bengaluru has brought a stay from the Supreme Court after he was asked to leave for Pakistan following the Pahalgam terrorist attack, NDTV reported.

Bengaluru Man Gets Temporary Stay On Deportation

In view of the April 22 attack, the Indian government had cancelled all the visas of Pakistan nationals and had given two days time to leave the country. However, a man named Ahmed Tariq Butt approached the apex court claiming that he was asked to leave India despite having Indian passport and Aadhaar Card.

The apex court has given an interim relief to Butt along with his five other family members and given time to prove his claims, Bar and Bench reported.

"Besides the human element, there are issues which need to be verified ... Since factual plea needs verification, we dispose of the same without expressing anything on merits, with a direction to authorities to verify these documents and any other fact that may be brought to their notice. Let a decision be taken earliest. We are not setting a timeline ... In the peculiar facts of this case, let the authorities not take any coercive action against petitioners till an appropriate decision is taken," the website quoted a Bench of Justice Surya Kant and NK Singh as saying.

Who Is Ahmed Tariq Butt?

As per NDTV report, Butt has done an MBA from the IIM in Kerala's Kozhikode.

Butt is born in Mirpur in Pakistan. He has informed that he came to India in 1997 with a Pakistani passport. Once reaching Srinagar, he surrendered his Pakistan passport to the Jammu and Kashmir High Court while applying for the Indian passport.

His father accompanied him while his other family members join them in 2000. Although they have Indian citizenship now and has Indian documents, the Union Home Ministry has asked them to leave.

Responding to his plea, the apex court has asked the Centre to verify his documents and he can approach the Jammu and Kashmir High Court if the Indian government decides to deport him.

The court said: "Let an appropriate decision be taken at the earliest, though we are not stating any timeline." "In the peculiar facts, authorities may not take coercive action till an appropriate decision is taken," the court added

The Bench pointed out that this ruling should not be treated as a precedent. "This order shall not be treated as a precedent as it is in peculiar facts and circumstances of this case," the order stated.