The Madras High Court Bench here on Monday directed ‘Q’ Branch police to shift Sri Lankan refugee K. Dhayabararaj from a camp in Tiruchi to Mandapam in Ramanathapuram district where his wife D. Udayakala and three children were residing.
Justices K.K. Sasidharan and B. Gokuldas passed the interim order on a habeas corpus petition filed by Ms. Udayakala accusing the police of withholding their passports and detaining her husband in Tiruchi special camp though they were willing to go back to their country.
Contesting the HCP, the police claimed that Interpol had issued a red corner notice against the petitioner’s husband who was wanted in Sri Lanka in a bank fraud case.
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It also objected to shifting him from Tiruchi to Mandapam on the ground that he might escape easily.