Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, May 1: High Court of Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh today stayed the deportation of a family to Pakistan.
The petitioners namely Iftkhar Ali, Zulfqar Ali, Mohd Shafiq, Mohd Shakoor, Shazia Tabsam, Koser Parveen, Naseem Akhter, Akseer Akhter and Nashroon Akhter submitted before the court that they have apprehension of being forced to leave India on allegations that they were Pakistanis although they were bona fide residents of Poonch district.
Justice Rahul Bharti observed, “there is sufficient material including revenue documents and police service records to show that there is prima facie case in the petitioners’ favour”. Accordingly, High Court stayed any move to deport the petitioners from India for the time being, although it added that this direction would be subject to objections from the Government’s side.
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