Did your friend work for an ngo or was he a journalist? That's getting very common with this current government and especially given family ties in india can be challenged in court.
Look for the case of priya pillai, a Greenpeace office bearer who was prevented from leaving for London and had her passport cancelled - the court passed orders for her passport to be restored and her name removed from a no fly list --srs > On 08-Feb-2016, at 12:30 AM, harry <[email protected]> wrote: > > Long story short ... very close friend of mine got deported and banned from > India. > > Had family in India (was a foreign passport & PIO person of indian origin > card holder ... a document that gives certain privileges on par with a > citizen ...e.g. freedom to work ). No reason was given by immigration > authorities, all documents were in order. Friend was returning from a > short trip overseas, got bundled back on return flight. Eventually handed a > refusal to land order which stated reason as entry banned into India. > > I have been trying to help, been navigating a rather bizarre chain of > people going from immigration to home affairs ministry and external affairs > ministry and so on. Got a very grim picture of the federal structure of > indian bureaucracy and the total lack of checks and balances -- a small guy > somewhere can pass an incorrect order and that travels up the chain and > gets executed. To undo that you need to follow the whole chain by starting > from the very top. Not for the faint hearted. > > >> On 6 February 2016 at 19:02, Chew Lin Kay <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Such a question raises even more questions--what's the story behind the >> query, Harry? >> >>> On Sun, Jan 31, 2016 at 2:35 AM, harry <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> I am particularly interested in the Indian deportation experience ... >>> someone ? >>
