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.The petitioner, Mainul Haque Khan, was detained at the Ghojadanga border checkpoint on Oct 27 and sent to the Tentulia holding centre after immigration officials alleged he held an expired Bangladeshi passport issued in his name, which lapsed in 2019.Khan’s family maintained that he runs an export-import business and was travelling to Bangladesh for work when he was intercepted. According to his family, 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.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. 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.Apprehending that Khan could be deported while their plea remained pending, the petitioners sought urgent judicial protection. Observing that a “sufficient prima facie case” was established, the division bench granted interim relief against his deportation.
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