J&K High Court seeks status in return of Pakistani son of Indian deported after Pahalgam attack
The J&K High Court on Friday (October 30, 2026) sought the status of the case of Aasim Sajjad alias Fardin Sajjad, who was deported to Pakistan after the Pahalgam attack, and later the court ordered his pickup to join his parents.
Justice Rahul Bharati directed advocate Monica Kohli, Senior Additional Advocate General (AAG), “to apprise this court of the latest available information”.
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Referring to the judgment handed down on March 25 this year, the court said: “It (the judgment) was to get Mr. Sajjad, who was transferred to Pakistan, but he was ordered to join the parent company.”
The court directed the AAG to “inform the Court” of the next date of hearing on November 2.
Earlier this year, a court directed the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) to retrieve the Pakistan-born son of an Indian who was deported after the Pahalgam attack from J&K to Pakistan.
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According to the father, Sajjad Ahmed, 43, his 18-year-old son was issued a “Notice to Leave India” in April 2025, even though he was “processing an application for the extension of a long-term visa”. The court ordered the MHA to consider and grant citizenship against the application he made under Section 5(1)(a). d) the Citizenship Act of 1955.
“Being a citizen of India, this court is of the view that keeping in view the sacred human values and rights, the court must step in to issue certain directions,” the court observed then.
Mr. Ahmed, a resident of Rajouri’s Budhal, went to Pakistan on a valid passport in 2005 to meet his relatives. During his stay, Ahmed married Shabnum Kouser, a resident of Gujranwala, Pakistan, and she gave birth to a child there in 2006. The Indian father returned to India in 2007 and applied for an extension of the visa on an annual basis on the basis of marriage. In 2013, Ahmed’s wife died “due to a terminal illness”. The minor son was granted a visa extension until 2015.
According to the family’s plea, the father made several applications through proper channels to the appropriate authority seeking to declare his son a citizen of India, “but neither the son was declared a citizen of India nor was the visa extended in his favour”.
The father claimed his son was “forcibly taken into a police van and deported to Pakistan via the Wagah border”.
After the Pahalgam attack that left 26 civilians dead, many Pakistan-born citizens married to J&K citizens were deported from the Union Territory.
Published – 30 Oct 2026 23:35 IST