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The Delhi High Court connected Wednesday (November 26, 2025) asked the Union authorities to respond to a plea filed by Indian-born British world Nitasha Kaul, challenging the determination to blacklist her from entering India and cancelling her Overseas Citizen of India (OCI) status.
Justice Sachin Datta issued announcement connected the exertion filed by Ms. Kaul, who is simply a prof of International Relations astatine the University of Westminster, seeking interim alleviation to question to India for 3 weeks to thin to her aged and ailing mother.
Ms. Kaul, who has roots successful the Kashmiri Pandit community, studied successful Delhi University and has written astir Kashmir, nationalism, and Hindutva. She testified astir quality rights successful Kashmir earlier the U.S. House Committee connected Foreign Affairs aft the Union authorities abrogated the peculiar presumption of Jammu and Kashmir.
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‘Anti-India activities’
Despite having a valid U.K. passport and an OCI card, Ms. Kaul said she had been denied introduction astatine Bengaluru airdrome and deported aft being held for astir 24 hours successful a compartment successful February 2024. She was visiting Bengaluru connected the Karnataka government’s invitation to be a league titled, Constitution and National Unity.
Over a twelvemonth later, successful May 2025, the Indian authorities revoked her OCI presumption and accused her of “anti-India” activities.
In her petition, Ms. Kaul said that she has been repeatedly targeted for her captious world writings and nationalist engagement. She added that the Central government’s orders interruption the principles of earthy justness and her law and statutory rights.
“The Petitioner is being prevented from visiting her aged mother, aged 72 years, who resides successful New Delhi and has longstanding wellness issues arsenic a subsister of an auto-immune information and having undergone 2 bosom surgeries, disabling her from undertaking agelong travel; and different household members, by virtuousness of the amerciable actions taken against her by the Respondents. The Respondents’ actions smack of arbitrariness and high-handedness, reflecting an utter disregard for the Rule of Law successful a escaped and antiauthoritarian society,” the plea adds.
