SHIMLA: The Himachal Pradesh High Court has stayed the deportation Orders served on Fred Hoering US national alleged to have links with senior Akali leader Simranjit Singh Mann.
An interim order to this effect was passed last week by a specially Constituted Hench comprising Justice I .S. Patna and Justice A. I. Vaidya lattices have also been issued to state and center governments on a writ Petition filed by Hoering. Mann was also present in the court. The petitioner has challenged the deportation order passed by Additional co Himachal on instructions of the Central Government directing him to leave India within seven days ending on May 4.
The impugned order mentioned over-stay and the renewal of his visa as the reasons for deportation to bed business consulting who had come to India a year ago business visa the Petitioner alleged that his request for visa-extension pending with tis Ministry of Home Affairs and had not been dawn so far
According to the petitioner, he came to India in April last year with many ‘prior references and Simranjit Singh Munn happened to be one of them ‘He contacted various persons, including the Akali leader to establish business ties in the country, He claims to have applied for registration at police station, Dalhousie, on his arrival last year, but the allegation is disputed by the government the Home department.at Delhi on April 8, for extension of but was referred back 13 Dalhousie, where 9 police officer sent him to Chambal. He was downed by the police here on April 15, for over a week and then escorted to Delhi to contact officials of the home department meal TWO Ways liter, he was again brought back to Himachal Pradesh, According to his counsel Ranjan Lakhanna who presented his case lore the Homo Secretary on April 27, the foreigner was being departed she was considered to the a threat to-the security of the country, During preliminary hearing of the case in the High Court, Lakhanpal, Rajiv Sharma, argued that deportation order was not justified as the petitioner’s case for exsiention of stay was still pending with the Center government.
Article extracted from this publication >> May 20, 1994
