Kerala family, stuck in Karachi, fears deportation without their children

December 29, 2013

Indian_High_CommissionThiruvananthapuram, Dec 29: Haneef Maranaveetil, a native of the northern district of Kannur, and his wife Aseena have been caught in this agonizing situation because of the delay on the part of the Indian High Commission in Pakistan to issue passports to the children aged three years and 18 days.

Haneef, who had gone to Karachi along with his wife six years ago, to dispose of the property owned by his father, a Pakistani national, has been running from pillar to post but to no avail.

Pleas from their family members in Kerala and prominent Keralites in Pakistan especially after the couple was served with a deportation notice by the Pakistani authorities four months ago have not yielded any result so far.

Haneef’s mother Thekkemaniymbath Ayisha is worried that the Pakistani authorities may deport Haneef and Aseena without their children, Haseeb and Haseeba. She has sought urgent intervention of the federal government to avoid this unpleasant prospect.

Haneef’s father-in-law Dirar Chirayakkunnel said the family members had approached all who mattered, including the Indian mission in Islamabad, local MP K Sudhakaran and Federal Minister of State for Home Mullappally Ramachandran, but none had come to their rescue.

He said Haneef has been trying to delay the deportation without the children by going into hiding. But Dirar is doubtful how long his son-in-law and daughter will be able to stay away from the vigil of the Pakistani authorities.

He said Haneef had gone to Karachi a few months after his marriage to sell off a hotel his father Abdulla owned there. Abdulla, who migrated to Pakistan before Partition, had died in 1992. The hotel was being run by Haneef’s uncle since then.

As the transfer of the asset in the name of the uncle itself took three years, Haneef abandoned the move to sell the property and tried to return, but could not without getting a passport for his son born three years ago. The birth of the second child on December 11 has confounded his problem.

Though he has submitted the documents for issuing passport to the second child he does not know how long it will take for the Indian authorities to complete the process that they could not do in the case of the first child in the last three years.

The family members of the couple are anguished over the situation. They are worried that they will not be able to see them if the authorities did not act swiftly to issue emergency passports to the children.

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May 9,2020

New Delhi, May 9: Three promoters of Ram Dev International, recently booked by the CBI for allegedly cheating a consortium of six banks to the tune of Rs 411 crore, have already fled the country before the State Bank of India reached the agency with the complaint, officials said on Saturday.

The CBI had recently booked the company engaged in export of Basmati rice to the West Asian and European countries and its directors Naresh Kumar, Suresh Kumar and Sangita on the basis of complaint from the State Bank of India (SBI), which suffered the loss of more than Rs 173 crore, they said.

The company had three rice milling plants, besides eight sorting and grading units in Karnal district with offices in Saudi Arabia and Dubai for trading purposes, the SBI complaint said.

Besides SBI, other members of consortium are Canara Bank, Union Bank of India, IDBI, Central Bank of India and Corporation Bank, they said.

The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) did not carry out any searches in the matter because of the coronavirus-induced lockdown, the officials said.

The agency will start the process of summoning the accused, incase they do not join the investigation, appropriate legal action will be initiated, they said.

According to the complaint filed by SBI, the account had become non-performing asset (NPA) on January 27, 2016.

The banks conducted a joint inspection of properties in August and October, nearly 7-9 months later only to find Haryana Police security guards deployed there, they said.

"On inquiry, it has been come to notice that borrowers are absconding and have left the country," the complaint filed on February 25, 2020, after over a year of account becoming NPA, the officials said.

The complaint alleged that borrowers had removed entire machinery from old plant and fudged the balance sheets in order to unlawfully gain at the cost of banks'' funds, it said.

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April 7,2020

Jammu, Apr 7: Old habits will just no longer do, a Jammu and Kashmir administration employee found to his dismay on Tuesday when he was sent to a quarantine centre for blowing his nose and spitting on the road.

The man, who works as an accountant in the civil secretariat here, had gone to meet a relative in Paloura on the outskirts of the city when he was nabbed, officials said.

The neighbours panicked when they saw him blowing his nose and immediately called the police, which rushed to the spot with a medical team and a magistrate, they said.

He was immediately taken to a quarantine facility set up at the IIT hostel in the Janipur area and his samples taken for a coronavirus test.

Given the high levels of anxiety over the spread of COVID-19, news of his being taken by police started circulating widely. There were also some WhatsApp messages that he was trying to deliberately spread the infection and was arrested by police.

However, police officials said they had not arrested him and merely put him in a quarantine centre. It was not clear how long he would be in the centre.

The employee told police officials he had an itch in his nose and nothing more.

"Be responsible citizens and stop spreading rumours or fake news," an official said, requesting people to be more responsible.

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March 21,2020

New Delhi, Mar 21: Novel coronavirus cases in India rose to 258 on Saturday after 35 fresh cases were reported in various parts of the country, according to the Health Ministry.

Among the 258 are 39 foreign nationals, including 17 from Italy, three from the Philippines, two from the UK, one each belonging to Canada, Indonesia and Singapore.

The total figure also includes four deaths reported from Delhi, Karnataka, Punjab and Maharashtra.

"The total number of active COVID-19 cases across India stands at 231 so far," the ministry said, adding that 23 others have been cured/discharged/migrated while four have died.

Delhi has, so far, reported 26 positive cases, which include one foreigner, while Uttar Pradesh has recorded 24 cases, including one foreigner.

Maharashtra has 52 cases, including three foreigners, while Kerala has recorded 40 cases, which include seven foreign nationals.

Karnataka has 15 coronavirus patients. The number of cases in Ladakh rose to 13 and Jammu & Kashmir four. Telangana has reported 19 cases, which include 11 foreigners.

Rajasthan has also reported 17 cases, including two foreigners. Gujarat has reported seven cases so far.

Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh and Uttarakhand have reported three cases each.

West Bengal, Odisha and Punjab each reported two cases while Puducherry, Chhattisgarh and Chandigarh reported one case each.

In Haryana, there are 17 cases, which include 14 foreigners.

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