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Court
frees 65 detained Pakistanis, allows stay in Delhi
Thursday April 28, 2011 02:36:39 PM,
IANS
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New Delhi: A total
of 65 Pakistani nationals, detained for staying in India without
valid documents, would be released from jail and allowed to live
here for three months after the Delhi High Court Thursday agreed
to the submissions of the UNHCR, which has granted them refugee
status.
Petitioner and Pakistani national Saifullah Bajwa's advocate
Meenakshi Arora submitted before Justice Mukta Gupta that the
United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has granted
refugee status to the 65 Pakistanis presently lodged in Tihar
Jail.
"The government of India has also agreed to the UNHCR having
granted refugee status to the Pakistanis. Accordingly, the
government has allowed them to stay in Delhi for a period of three
months during which the UNHCR will look for third countries to
relocate them," said Arora.
"After their release from jail they will have to report to DCP
(deputy commissioner of police), special branch, once a month,"
said the court.
Justice Gupta would hear the case next May 6.
The court was hearing a plea to hand over the Pakistanis, detained
in 2007, to the UNHCR.
Justice Hima Kohli earlier directed the home ministry not to take
a decision to deport the Pakistani nationals till April 28.
The court gave its interim order while hearing the petition filed
by Bajwa and others seeking relief.
"Allow us to walk out on bail or else hand us over to the UNHCR,"
said the petitioner.
The Pakistani nationals belonging to Gowhar Shahi sect, banned by
the Pakistan government, have been under detention in Tihar Jail
since April 23, 2007, after they staged a demonstration demanding
asylum in India.
"Refusing to return to their homeland, they had during their
protests burnt the Pakistani flag, their passports and visa
papers," said the petition.
A division bench of the court earlier directed the central
government not to deport the Pakistanis till March 2011 on the
ground that the UNHCR had completed their interviews and a final
report about their refugee status was yet to come.
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