Pahalgam Terror Attack: Karnataka High Court Issues Notice On Pakistani Minors' Plea Seeking No Coercive Action Till May 15
The Karnataka High Court on Tuesday (May 6) issued notice to the Union of India, State Government on a petition filed by three minor children who are Pakistani Nationals, seeking to restrain the authorities from taking any coercive action against them until May 15, the date by which they are expected to leave India.A vacation bench Justice M G Uma issued notice and has posted the matter...
The Karnataka High Court on Tuesday (May 6) issued notice to the Union of India, State Government on a petition filed by three minor children who are Pakistani Nationals, seeking to restrain the authorities from taking any coercive action against them until May 15, the date by which they are expected to leave India.
A vacation bench Justice M G Uma issued notice and has posted the matter for further hearing on Thursday.
The petitioners who are minors are represented through their mother who is married to a Pakistani national. As per their plea they entered India through a valid visa in January and it is to expire in June.
In view of the untoward incident of killing of travellers at Pahalgam, the Central Government has revoked the VISA granted to all the Pakistani Nationals with immediate effect and ordered them to return to their country on or before 30-04-2025.
Following which the petitioner's went to Attari border on 28-04-2025 to go to their country. But as there was no one to receive them and further since Pakistan closed its border to its own citizens, the Immigration authorities sent them back to Mysore.
Thus they made a representation to the Commissioner of Police and Foreigners Registration Officer (Mysore), seeking a long term visa or extension of visa. But till this day the no decision has been made on their representation, the petitioners claim.
The plea states that the petitioners, apprehending coercive action at the hands of the authorities and having no other alternative and efficacious remedy, have approached the high court seeking a mandamus to consider their representation and not to take coercive steps against them for 15 days as they are going back to Pakistan on or before 15-05-2025, after attending marriage which was scheduled on 12-05-2025.
Appearance: Advocates K G Ganesha, S Y Suma Dixit for Petitioners.