The Jammu and Kashmir Excessive Court docket has instructed the Ministry of Dwelling Affairs (MHA) to take steps to carry again an Indian citizen’s Pakistan-born son, who was deported after the April 2025 Pahalgam assault.
Justice MA Chowdhary, listening to the petition filed by Sajjad Ahmed, 42, issued instructions to the MHA “to retrieve the petitioner’s son, particularly Aasim Sajjad, aka Fardin Sajjad, pursuant to ‘Depart India Discover’ dated April 25”.
The courtroom held that the son, who was round 18 years previous when deported to Pakistan in 2025, must be allowed “to pursue his software for extension of long-term visa”. The courtroom additionally directed the MHA to contemplate and grant citizenship in opposition to the applying filed by him underneath Part 5 (1) (d) of Citizenship Act, 1955.
“(Sajjad Ahmed) being an Indian citizen, this courtroom, is of the thought of opinion that having regard to the sacrosanct human values and rights, the courtroom should step in to cross sure instructions,” Justice Chowdhary noticed, whereas passing the instructions to the MHA.
The courtroom requested the MHA to hold out the train “expeditiously, ideally inside a interval of eight weeks”.
Mr. Ahmed, a resident of Rajouri’s Budhal, had gone to Pakistan on a sound passport in 2005 to satisfy his family members. Throughout his keep, he married Shabnum Kouser, a resident of Pakistan’s Gujranwala. The couple’s child was born there in 2006. He returned to India in 2007 and utilized for visa extension for his relations on yearly foundation on the grounds of marriage. In 2013, Mr. Ahmed’s spouse died of an sickness. The minor son’s visa was prolonged until 2015.
In response to the household’s plea, the daddy moved a number of purposes via correct channels earlier than the competent authority for searching for declaration of his son as a citizen of India “however neither the son had been declared a citizen nor visa prolonged in his favour”.
“As a bolt from the sky, personnel of the J&Okay Police raided the home of the petitioner and took away his son with none data or copy of the deportation order,” in accordance with the daddy’s plea. Later, the son was “taken forcibly in a police van and deported to Pakistan through Wagah border”.
Scores of Pakistan-born residents, married to residents of J&Okay, had been deported from the Union Territory after the Pahalgam terror assault, which left 26 civilians useless.
Revealed – April 01, 2026 10:55 pm IST