POK resident asked to file affidavit on Bombay HC order

The sessions court today directed a man who claims to hail from Pakistan Occupied Kashmir (POK) to file an affidavit on a Bombay High Court order which granted him relief from any coercive action by police.
Siraj Khan, convicted under the Foreigners Act for illegally entering India, yesterday filed for pre-arrest bail in the lower court after police lodged a case against him for allegedly escaping from detention.
"The sessions court has directed us to file an affidavit on yesterday's High Court's order which said that no coercive action shall be taken (by police) against him," said his lawyer Yusuf Khan.

The matter is likely to come up for hearing tomorrow.
Yusuf had told the sessions court that an inquiry has been instituted against a Senior Inspector of RAK Police Station in Central Mumbai for releasing him (apparently without officials' orders) from custody and there was no reason for him to escape from preventive detention.
Siraj had also told the court that the original offence against him was not maintainable as the Union Government considers POK as a part of India.
The 29-year-old's appeal against the magistrate court's conviction order is pending in the sessions court. The Bombay HC had stayed his deportation earlier this year.

Siraj had landed in Amritsar in 1995 as a 10-year-old when he took a wrong train while fleeing from his home. He later arrived in Mumbai where he married an Indian woman with whom he has three children.