LONDON (PTI): On the eve of premier John Major’s official visit to India, the British Govt has demonstrated its resolve to deport a Sikh “for national security reasons.”
Karamjit Singh Chahal has challenged, for the second time, the legality of the British home office’s decision to deport him to India on the grounds that he faced a “real risk of inhuman and degrading treatment” if he returned 10 India.
The British home office refused Chahal’s plea for Asylum in the UK and ordered his deportation Lo India accusing him of a “public history of violent involvement in Sikh militancy.”
The home office has all along maintained that Chahal would not face torture if he returned to India. Chahal had to be expelled in the public interest because he was involved in militant activities, the government told the court.
The Government has refused to accept that Chahal had the right to refugee status bat, even if he did, the home office wanted him deported for national security reasons, the court was told.
Article extracted from this publication >> January 22, 1993
