{"id":341583,"date":"2023-01-27T23:41:00","date_gmt":"2023-01-28T05:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=341583"},"modified":"2023-01-30T00:35:32","modified_gmt":"2023-01-30T06:05:32","slug":"journalist-angad-singh-blacklisted-centre-tells-delhi-hc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/journalist-angad-singh-blacklisted-centre-tells-delhi-hc\/","title":{"rendered":"Journalist Angad Singh blacklisted, Centre tells Delhi HC"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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New Delhi:  The Centre on Friday informed the Delhi High Court that Angad Singh, a US-based journalist with Vice News, has been blacklisted despite being an Overseas Citizen of India (OCI) card holder.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On December 7, 2022, a bench of Justice Prathiba M. Singh had directed the Central government to file a response in a suit filed by Singh against his deportation from Delhi to New York in August last year. He has also challenged the refusal to grant him a Special Permit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Appearing for the Centre, advocate Anurag Ahluwalia told the court that as Singh has violated Section 11A of the Foreigners Order, 1948, which prohibits a foreigner from producing any picture, film or documentary without permission in writing from the Centre, he is a blacklisted subject.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He had allegedly depicted India in a negative manner in the “India Burning” documentary.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Singh has covered important issues in his documentaries, including the Shaheen Bagh protests, the farmers’ protests and the Covid-19 pandemic in India, among others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ahluwalia submitted that Singh was entering India on his journalist visa for a personal visit but he wasn’t issued a visa for that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The FRRO, in an affidavit, told the court that Singh was blacklisted at the instance of the Consulate General of India in New York.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On January 7, Ahluwalia had said that the affidavit will explain why the petitioner was denied entry into the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Advocate Swathi Sukumar, representing Singh before the court said that Singh’s OCI card is still valid and has not yet been cancelled.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To this, Ahluwalia sought time to obtain instructions and file a response on whether any show cause notice or proceedings were started against Singh for the cancellation of his OCI card.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The court then granted two weeks’ time to Ahluwalia to file the affidavit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his plea, Singh has mentioned that his fundamental right under the Citizenship Act, 1955, is being violated by not letting him into India.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He has also asked the court to restrain the government from violating his rights.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Earlier, Singh’s counsel had sought a declaration that his deportation from the government was illegal and disclosure of all the materials and data available with the government related to him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His mother, through a Facebook post, had claimed that he had come to India to meet his family in Punjab and it was because of his journalism that he was deported.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

New Delhi:  The Centre on Friday informed the Delhi High Court that Angad Singh, a US-based journalist with Vice News, has been blacklisted despite being an Overseas Citizen of India (OCI) card holder. On December 7, 2022, a bench of Justice Prathiba M. Singh had directed the Central government to file a response in a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":341584,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[15991,15994,15992,15993],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341583"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=341583"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341583\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":341608,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341583\/revisions\/341608"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/341584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=341583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=341583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=341583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}