Rakshanda Rashid. Photo: Special arrangement
The resort informed Jamma and Kashmir and Ladakh High Court that it decided to give the visa a visitor a 62 -year -old housewife, which was deported to a terrorist attack on Pakistan on Pahalgam. The court stated that a particular case should not determine the precedent in any way.
The petitioner, Rakshanda Rashid, a Pakistani citizen married to the Indian, has lived in Jammu for the last 38 years on a long -term visa (LTV), which was renewed annually. In 1996 she applied for citizenship, but the application must still be processed.
After a terrorist attack on April 22, the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MHA) canceled the visas of all Pakistani citizens and asked them to leave the country until 29 April. Mrs. Rashid was deported despite the MHA Directive that Muslim women who are married to Indian citizens and who demand LTV are not necessary to leave the country. At the time of her deportation, her request LTV awaited the Ministry.
The General Attorney General (SG) Tushar Mehta, who appeared for MHA, reported the court 30 July “that after many negotiations and consideration of the peculiarities of the facts and unusual factual position in this matter, a fundamental decision on the opponents of the opponents is taken.”
Visit visas are only awarded to Pakistan to visit relatives or for any other legitimate purpose.
SG said that the opponent could also monitor these two pending requests – to obtain Indian citizenship and LTV with MHA.
Hind was the first to report on Mrs. Rashid’s case 23 June.
In need
Mrs. Rashid’s daughter, Fatima Sheikh, said Hindu that her mother had no relatives in Pakistan, and had lived alone in a small hotel in the last three months and had ran out of money.
Ankur Sharma, advisor to Mrs. Rashid, told Hindu that they had appealed to the court for remedy and did not want to take the contradictory position against the government. “The written petition has been withdrawn and we welcome the court order. Mrs. Rashid will have to apply for a visa in the Indian high commission in Islamabad,” said Mr. Sharma.
The woman’s family moved the court in May. On 6 June, Judge Rahul Bharti ordered the Minister of the Union to return the petitioner from Pakistan in 10 days. On 29. He added that the HC order is constitutionally inadmissible and unsustainable because he manages the enforcement of the court file behind the sovereign territory of India to Pakistan, where she was deported and was therefore ultra virres. The ministry also stated that the direction of the court is “legally unlocked and diplomatically unsustainable”.
The order of July 30 from the leader of the main judge ARUN PALLI and the judiciary Rajnesh Oswal said: “India’s general lawyer is reported that as soon as it is essentially accepted, it is most accepted in the most interesting office.” ”
He added, “However, we may hurry to clarify that the fundamental decisions of the offices focused on special facts and the circumstances of the case do not represent the precedent in any way.”
Published – 1 August 2025 20:42
