Kolkata: Calcutta High Court’s vacation bench has restrained authorities from deporting a North 24 Parganas resident to Bangladesh until Dec 24 or further orders, directing officials to submit a detailed report before the regular bench next month.
On Nov 6, Khan’s wife and elder sister filed a habeas corpus petition before the division bench of Justices Sabyasachi Bhattacharyya and Arjun Ray Mukherjee.
Khan is an Indian citizen by birth and holds a valid Indian passport, a school certificate, trade registration, and records showing his parents’ death certificates and burial sites in India, according to his family. Khan’s family maintained that he runs an export-import business and was travelling to Bangladesh for work when he was intercepted. They alleged that the family received no prior notice of his detention, that no formal grounds or arrest memos were provided, and that he was neither produced before a magistrate nor allowed to furnish proof of his Indian citizenship.