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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Ilina booked under Foreigners' Act by Soumittra S Bose, Supriya Sharma & Sanjeev Chandan

Ilina booked under Foreigners' Act by Soumittra S Bose, Supriya Sharma & Sanjeev Chandan

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published Published on Jan 25, 2011   modified Modified on Jan 25, 2011

Ilina Sen, wife of activist Dr Binayak Sen, was on Monday booked by Wardha police for not informing them about the participation of foreign nationals in 13 th National conference for the Indian Association of Women's Studies (IAWS) organized under her supervision at Mahatma Gandhi International Hindi University. The four-day conference concluded on Monday.

The cops have also booked the in-charge of the accommodation committee of the conference. The offences against Sen and the accommodation committee in-charge have been registered under the relevant section of the Foreigners' Act at Sewagram police station. Local unit of state Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS) initiated action against the owners of the premises who had neglected to inform local police about the arrival of foreign nationals at their respective places.

Reacting to reports of offence against her, Ilina Sen told TOI in Raipur, "this is exactly what I was fearing all along, that police and administration in Naxal affected states are looking for opportunities to implicate me in false cases and I am not safe in this country. There is no question of sheltering any foreign nationals (without the police's knowledge) or involving them in political activity." She had come to attend bail plea of her husband before the Chhattisgarh high court in Bilaspur.

On Sunday, offences under the Foreigners Act, 1946, were registered against a hotel owner and his two employees at Wardha city police station. On Monday, offence was registered against manager of a dharamshala, Virendra Mohnani, at the same police station. A Sri Lankan national was staying here.

However, no action was initiated against the vice-chancellor Vibhuti Narayan Rai or others who too had allowed foreign nationals to stay at their respective premises. ATS sources said they had learnt about Rai's involvement in allowing three foreign nationals at his bungalow in the university premises. The fact that Rai, a former IPS officer of Haryana cadre, had played the host to three foreigners featured in the statement of the security officer Rajendra Ghormade.

"The local police may register an offence against him in due course since Rai's name featured in the statement recorded by us," said an ATS official. The ATS also gave a clean chit to hostel authorities. "The hostels and the premises of the university were handed over to Sen (Ilina) for the conference. The premises were under her control during the conference. Her letter had urged the organizing committee to ensure that arrangements for accommodation were being made for the foreign nationals," said an official source.

ATS and local police faced tumultuous protest at University when they went to question the authorities. The organizing committee too sent its complaint to the higher officials of the district police who opted to refrain from commenting on the episode and ATS actions.

Anita Ghai, president of IAWS, said that the organizing committee had invited three foreign nationals while the rest came on their own. ATS, on the other hand, claimed that the foreign nationals were visiting India on a tourist visa and there participation in political agitations against Indian Government was an outrageous act.

The Times of India, 25 January, 2011, http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/nagpur/Ilina-booked-under-Foreigners-Act/articleshow/7356782.cms


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