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Pakistan turns away man ordered deported by Kerala court

By Our Staff Reporter

KOZHIKODE Aug. 2. C. Ibrahim claims that he is an Indian who holds a Pakistan passport, but he has today fallen between two stools.

Taken to the India-Pakistan border this past week on the orders of a court in northern Kerala after he was arrested by the police for overstaying on his visa, the poor fish vendor was turned away by the Pakistan authorities and is expected back at Vadakara near here tomorrow. Mr. Ibrahim claims that he reached Pakistan by accident 35 years ago after he was off-loaded in Karachi from a ship in which he had hoped to travel to a Gulf country and that he took Pakistani citizenship only because that appeared to be the easiest way to get a visa and come back to India. Mr. Ibrahim said he had boarded the ship in Mumbai to make a living in the Gulf and that he was cheated by visa racketeers.

Kerala police sources in Vadakara said that a police team that took Mr. Ibrahim to the border in order to carry out the court's deportation orders was returning along with him since the Pakistani authorities refused to accept him as he did not possess valid documents.

The Kerala Police are now expected to charge Mr. Ibrahim under Sections 14, and 13 read with 3(2) of the Foreigners Act, 1946 and produce him in court again. Mr. Ibrahim is married to an Indian and has two daughters.

There was no immediate confirmation from New Delhi of the government's position with regard to Mr. Ibrahim's case. His relatives expressed the hope that the Indian government would grant him citizenship.

A number of instances of people holding Pakistani citizenship and staying on without valid visas have been reported from Kerala's Malabar region over a period of time.

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