Rakshanda Rashid. File | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement
The Ministry of the Interior of the Union (MHA) appealed against the order of Jamm and Kashmir and the Ladakh High Court to repatriate Rakshand Rashid, a 62 -year -old housewife who was deported to Pakistan after the terrorist attack of Pahalgam, although she lived in India in long -term visions (LTV).
MHA filed a patent appeal of letters in front of the High Court bench against an order from 6 June Judge Rahula Bharti, who ordered the Minister of the Interior of the Union to bring Mrs. Rashid back to India within ten days.
On Tuesday, the judge applied for MHA and gave the Ministry ten days to give his answer on this matter.
Mrs. Rashid’s advisor Ankur Sharma told Hindu that the judge insisted on compliance with the MHA and noted that there was no stay at the order, even though the appeal was filed. The appeal will be heard on Wednesday the bench of the main judge.
April 29, at the time of deportation, LTV did not exist, MHA said. Mrs. Rashid said in her petition that she had asked LTV in January and the application was never rejected.
Long -term visa holder
After April 22, Pahalgam’s terrorist attack, which left 26 people dead, MHA canceled visas of all Pakistani citizens and asked them to leave the country by April 29. The order liberated those with long -term visas and Pakistani women married to Indian citizens.
Mrs. Rashid fell in both categories and was a Pakistani citizen married to an Indian who has lived in Jammu over the past 38 years on a long -term visa that has been restored annually. In 1996 she applied for Indian citizenship, but the application has not yet been processed.
“Distorted facts”
Mrs. Rashid’s daughter Fatima Sheikh said her mother was pushed from India by “distortion of facts”.
“We are sad about the terrorist attack of Pahalgam, but on what basis my mother was excluded from India? In January, we asked for a long -term extension of the visa, yet the announcement of” holiday India “that the police served, yet we applied for March 8. April 26 I received an e-mail that was re-elaborated that she went again, that he managed to go again, that I was reunited, that I was re-processed, that in April it was assigned to go on 29 May. Higher authorities for approval, ”said Mrs. Sheikh.
‘Rushing deportation’
Police officials appeared outside their house at 7 am and took Mrs. Rashid to the Attari border point in Pandjab, where she was deported, her daughter said. “They didn’t even allow us to talk to our lawyers. They were in a hurry to deport her. Her life she lived in Jammu. How she survives in Pakistan? It’s so expensive, no one has,” said Sheikh, adding that her mother had no relatives in Pakistan. Over the past three months, Mrs. Rashid lived alone in a small hotel and has no money for it, she said.
According to Hind 23 June, the judge ordered the Minister of the Interior of the Union to “acquire” the petitioner from Pakistan “due to the exceptional nature of the facts and circumstances of the case”. He added: “Human rights are the most sacred part of human life, and therefore there are cases where the Constitutional Court is to come with leniency similar to SOS, regardless of merit and shortcomings of the case.”
Published – 1 July 2025 21:35
