New Delhi: A city court has ordered the Centre to pay Rs 10 lakh compensation to two children who were "illegally" detained at the IGI Airport for over 20 hours in January 2010 and denied information as to the reasons for their detention.
The case pertains to twins Rumit and Alisha, six years old then, who had landed at the Delhi airport with their mother and two older siblings. They were stopped from exiting, though their family members were allowed to go.
The petition claimed that on January 31, 2010, the twins had landed at the IGI airport from Germany at 11 pm. The Assistant Foreigners Regional Registration Officer (AFFRO) at the IGI airport had stopped the children on the ground that the twins, who are German citizens of Indian Origin, were trying to enter India in less than two months of their earlier visit to India.
The children who were separated from their mother claimed that they were not provided food or sanitation facilities during their detention.
27/02/13 Aneesha Mathur/Indian Express
