Eid gift: Indian court releases Pakistan's Nuzhat Jahan
Gulfam said the court's decision to allow his wife to stay and seek citizenship is the best gift.
NEW DELHI (Web Desk) - The New Delhi High Court has ordered for the release of Nuzhat Jahan, a Pakistani national who married an Indian national Gulfam in 1983 and was living in India without a visa on Thursday.
According to Indian media reports, Nuzhat was lodged in a beggar s home since May because of visa violation.
In 1996, Nuzhat had applied for Indian citizenship however no decision was given.
Gulfam said the court s decision to allow his wife to stay and seek citizenship is the best gift this Eid.
The Court has restored my faith in my country, its judicial system and in humanity. My wife has been allowed to stay in India. Having her back at home is the best gift ever, Gulfam said.
Earlier, the chairman of the Ansar Burney Trust has requested the Indian government to release and allow stay in India or send Mrs Nuzhat Jahan back to Pakistan, who has been living in New Delhi for the past 30 years and is now awaiting her deportation to Pakistan for overstaying in India after 30 long years.
Ansar Burney, in his letter to Indian Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh and Indian high commissioner in Islamabad, said that Pakistani national, Nuzhat Jahan, was married at the age of 17 and stayed with her husband in India for the last 30 years, eversince in their small house in Sitaram Bazar, Old Delhi.
The letter to the Indian government said that in 2002, Nuzhat Jahan was picked up for overstaying in India without a valid visa and in early May this year she was sentenced to six days’ imprisonment, awarded a fine of 7,000 Indian rupees and ordered to be sent back to Pakistan.
