FTII student: Learnt of deportation only at airport

Pune: It was only at the Mumbai international airport on the night of December 5 that she first learned from an airline employee that she was being deported to Nepal, according to Film and Television Institute of India (FTII) final year student Neetu Singh.
‘‘The Pune police picked me up from the FTII campus and took me to the Deccan police station for identifying a man, who they said, could be the one harassing me. However, they took me from there to the Mumbai airport via the expressway in a car. Throughout the journey, they didn’t tell me why I was being taken away. It was only after I coaxed the airline staffer at the airport did he tell me that I was being deported to Nepal,’’ Neetu told TOI over the phone from Jhapa in Nepal on Saturday.
‘‘I started crying and asked the police, who then reluctantly told me that I was being deported,’’ Neetu said.
On Friday, All-India Democratic Women’s Association (AIDWA) state president Kiran Moghe had said that Neetu had filed a police complaint in 2008 against an unidentified person who was harassing her through SMSes and phone calls.
The Pune police have said that Neetu was deported because she was involved in anti-national activities in India. Rejecting the charges, Neetu said: ‘‘... neither am I involved in anti-national activities in India nor do I have any Maoist connections. ..’’
Neetu said: ‘‘When my passport and other legal documents related to my citizenship were seized from me at the Kathmandu international airport, Amresh Singh (her husband) got in touch with me on phone and told me that this was done by the Nepalese home ministry. But I suspect Amresh is behind all this.’’
03/01/10 Laxmi Birajdar/Times of India

To Read the News in full at Source, Click the Headline

Categories: Airports Jan 2010, Foreign Jan 2010