Anthropologist Filippo Osella strikes Delhi HC in opposition to deportation from Kerala, denial of entry into India

By PTI

NEW DELHI: An anthropologist and academician from the United Kingdom concerned in analysis on fishing communities in Kerala Monday approached the Delhi High Court in opposition to denial of entry into India and his deportation upon arrival at Thiruvananthapuram airport earlier this 12 months.

Justice Yashwant Varma requested the counsel for the Centre to hunt directions on the plea and listed the case for additional listening to in October.

In his plea, Filippo Osella, mentioned that until date, the explanations behind his “forceful” deportation from Thiruvananthapuram airport and denial of entry on March 23 despite a sound visa are “unknown” and his representations to the authorities stay unanswered.

The social scientist mentioned that the conduct of the authorities was “unfair, unjust and arbitrary” in addition to extremely vires the Constitution of India, worldwide legislation, and elementary human rights and dignity.

“Shockingly, when the petitioner landed in Thiruvananthapuram at 3.05 AM after a journey of about twenty hours with a layover in Dubai, he was denied entry and was forcibly deported. Reasons had been disturbingly absent on this high-handed and arbitrary conduct of the Immigration authorities at Thiruvananthapuram airport. By 4:30 AM, the Professor was actually marched again and bundled into the identical plane, by which he had arrived and was unjustly deported – very like a hardened legal,” the petition mentioned.

“The Petitioner’s request for his blood stress drugs from his baggage was additionally not allowed creating excessive nervousness, hypertension, and panic,” added the plea which additionally knowledgeable that the incident invited “an enormous backlash within the nationwide and worldwide press in addition to within the broad cross-section of the tutorial neighborhood”.

The plea submitted that the petitioner had legitimate a number of entries twelve months analysis visa for India and has an unblemished journey file and not one of the legally legitimate causes for deportation utilized to him.

“Petitioner strongly believes in tutorial integrity and transparency, as so each time the Petitioner utilized for a analysis visa to India, he declared his visits to Pakistan or elsewhere in South Asia.

It should be famous that although the Petitioner has visited a number of South Asian international locations together with Pakistan, he has at all times been granted applicable visas for India,” the plea mentioned.

NEW DELHI: An anthropologist and academician from the United Kingdom concerned in analysis on fishing communities in Kerala Monday approached the Delhi High Court in opposition to denial of entry into India and his deportation upon arrival at Thiruvananthapuram airport earlier this 12 months.

Justice Yashwant Varma requested the counsel for the Centre to hunt directions on the plea and listed the case for additional listening to in October.

In his plea, Filippo Osella, mentioned that until date, the explanations behind his “forceful” deportation from Thiruvananthapuram airport and denial of entry on March 23 despite a sound visa are “unknown” and his representations to the authorities stay unanswered.

The social scientist mentioned that the conduct of the authorities was “unfair, unjust and arbitrary” in addition to extremely vires the Constitution of India, worldwide legislation, and elementary human rights and dignity.

“Shockingly, when the petitioner landed in Thiruvananthapuram at 3.05 AM after a journey of about twenty hours with a layover in Dubai, he was denied entry and was forcibly deported. Reasons had been disturbingly absent on this high-handed and arbitrary conduct of the Immigration authorities at Thiruvananthapuram airport. By 4:30 AM, the Professor was actually marched again and bundled into the identical plane, by which he had arrived and was unjustly deported – very like a hardened legal,” the petition mentioned.

“The Petitioner’s request for his blood stress drugs from his baggage was additionally not allowed creating excessive nervousness, hypertension, and panic,” added the plea which additionally knowledgeable that the incident invited “an enormous backlash within the nationwide and worldwide press in addition to within the broad cross-section of the tutorial neighborhood”.

The plea submitted that the petitioner had legitimate a number of entries twelve months analysis visa for India and has an unblemished journey file and not one of the legally legitimate causes for deportation utilized to him.

“Petitioner strongly believes in tutorial integrity and transparency, as so each time the Petitioner utilized for a analysis visa to India, he declared his visits to Pakistan or elsewhere in South Asia.

It should be famous that although the Petitioner has visited a number of South Asian international locations together with Pakistan, he has at all times been granted applicable visas for India,” the plea mentioned.