The Jammu and Kashmir High Court has requested a report from the Radjouri district administration regarding compliance with its order dated March 25. This order concerned the reunification of a teenager, born in Pakistan and deported after an attack in Pahalgam, with his Indian father based on 'sacred human values and rights.'
The order, issued by Judge MA Choudhary seven months ago and reiterated by Justice Rahul Bharti's single bench, compared the boy's situation to the 'human suffering' and alienation caused by Partition. The court rejected the Immigration Bureau's argument that the deportation occurred due to the boy lacking a valid visa, noting that 'this case stems from this tragedy.'
Aasim Sajad, also known as Fardin Sajad, is the son of state school teacher Sajad Ahmed, who resides in Radjouri, and Pakistani woman Shabnum Khoser from Rawal in Gujranwala. Their marriage took place in Pakistan in December 2005, and Aasim was born there on November 26 of the following year.
Sajad's wife and son visited India in October 2007 on a 90-day visa, which was later extended for family reasons until 2013. After his wife's death in June 2013, Ahmed applied for an extension of his son's visa, which was approved until April 20, 2015. He then allegedly submitted multiple applications for Indian citizenship or visa extension on humanitarian grounds, none of which were reviewed.
Ahmed claimed that the Jammu and Kashmir police searched his house on April 29, 2025, took his son in a van, and deported him across the Wagah border without notifying him or handing him a deportation order. This deportation followed the Union government revoking visas for all Pakistani citizens after the terrorist attack on tourists in Pahalgam on April 22 and demanding they leave the country.
In its objections, the Foreigners Regional Registration Office (FRRO) insisted that Ahmed 'did not appear in court with clean hands,' and his son was in India without a valid visa and was legally obligated to leave. An FRRO lawyer stated that the status of the teenager's citizenship application, which Ahmed claimed was submitted, has not yet been 'received' on the MHA portal.

