Patna: Patna High Court took cognizance of a Pakistani national, who was lodged in the Jehanabad jail, for the last three years for overstaying in India after his visa expired. The High Court has sought a response from the Ministry of Home Affairs and the Ministry of External Affairs. Along with this, the court also questioned the Bihar government for having a detention centre inside jail premises.
A division bench of Justice AM Badar and Justice Sandeep Kumar fixed the next hearing after three weeks while hearing the habeas corpus petition of Afsana Nagar. Petitioner's husband Syed Naqvi Alam alias Naqvi Imam was born in India in 1973 and at the age of 11, he migrated to Pakistan in 1984, along with his maternal grandmother. While studying there, he got Pakistani citizenship and settled there. Later, in 2011 he returned to India after his father's health deteriorated on a one-year passport/visa to look after his father staying in Bihar's Arwal district.
