Jammu and Kashmir HC halts deportation of police constable, eight siblings to Pakistan
The Jammu and Kashmir High Court on Tuesday halted the deportation of a police constable and his eight siblings to Pakistan after notices were sent to them to leave India in the wake of the Pahalgam terror attack, PTI reported.
However, the current location of the siblings, who had been transported to the Attari-Wagah border near Punjab’s Amritsar by authorities before the stay order, is not known, The Indian Express reported.
Poonch Senior Superintendent of Police Shafqat Hussain told the newspaper that there was “uncertainty about their whereabouts”.
In the wake of the terror attack in Jammu and Kashmir’s Pahalgam on April 22, India had ordered all Pakistani citizens in the country to leave by April 27, and also suspended visa services to Pakistani citizens with immediate effect.
The case
On Saturday, the deputy commissioner in Poonch district issued a deportation notice to 45-year-old Iftkhar Ali, a constable who had been working with the Jammu and Kashmir Police for 27 years, The Times of India reported.
His elder brothers Zulfqar Ali, Mohammad Shafiq, Mohammad Shakoor and his sisters Shazia Tabsam, Kouser Parveen, Naseem Akhter, Akseer Akhtar and Nashroon Akhter were also served notices. All of them are residents of Salwah in the district.
A day later, all nine of them were taken into custody by the police and driven to the Attari-Wagah border for deportation,...
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