New Delhi, April 05: The Delhi High Court today directed the Centre not to deport 65 Pakistani nationals, arrested for staying in India without valid documents, till its further order on a plea to hand them over to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) which is yet to grant them refugee status.
In an interim order, Justice Hima Kohli asked the Union Home Ministry not to take a decision to deport them to Pakistan till April 28, the next date of hearing on the plea filed by Pakistani nationals Saifullah Bajwa and others seeking an order to the government to relase them on bail and hand them over to UNHCR.
Justice Kohli issued the notices to the Centre, Delhi government and UNHCR and sought their replies by April 28.
-Agencies