US Edition‘We Are Struggling with 140 Crore’: SC Rejects Sri Lankan Tamil's Plea, Says India ‘Not a Dharamshala’
- On Monday, the Supreme Court of India in New Delhi rejected a Sri Lankan Tamil national's plea to stay his deportation order after serving a seven-year prison sentence.
- The plea followed the Madras High Court’s decision to lessen a 2018 conviction related to anti-terrorism laws and to mandate the man's prompt deportation from India.
- The petitioner, arrested in 2015 for alleged LTTE links, claimed risk of torture if returned to Sri Lanka and sought refuge citing Articles 19 and 21 of the Indian Constitution.
- A Supreme Court bench led by two judges rejected the plea, emphasizing that India, with its vast population of 140 crore, cannot serve as a refuge for all displaced individuals and is not obligated to provide shelter to every refugee seeking asylum.
- The Court advised the petitioner to seek asylum elsewhere and held his detention and deportation orders lawful, implying India cannot host refugees beyond its citizen population's capacity.
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'India Not a Dharamshala to Accommodate Refugees from All over the World': SC
Get latest articles and stories on India at LatestLY. India is not a dharamshala to accommodate refugees from all over the world, the Supreme Court remarked on Monday while declining to entertain a plea filed by a Sri Lankan national challenging his deportation after serving a jail term. India News | 'India Not a Dharamshala to Accommodate Refugees from All over the World': SC.
'India is not dharamshala,' SC rejects Sri Lankan Tamil's plea for refuge
The Supreme Court on Monday, May 19, rejected a Sri Lankan Tamil man’s plea for refuge in India, asserting that the country “is not a dharamshala (free shelter)” to accommodate refugees from across the world. Convicted under UAPA, sentenced to jail A bench comprising Justice Dipankar Datta and Justice K Vinod Chandran was hearing the petition of a man arrested in 2015 for alleged links with the banned Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE). Con…
‘We are struggling with 140 crore’: SC rejects Sri Lankan Tamil's plea, says India ‘not a Dharamshala’
The Supreme Court refused to intervene in a Sri Lankan Tamil refuge's plea, asserting that India is ‘not a dharamshala’ and the nation was already struggling with a population of 140 crore
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