The Delhi High Court on Wednesday refused to pass directions to the Central Government on a petition seeking “comprehensive rehabilitation package” for Pakistan migrants who have obtained citizenship under the Citizenship Act. A division bench comprising Acting Chief Justice Vibhu Bakhru and Justice Tushar Rao Gedela said that rehabilitation package was purely a matter of policy of the Government. The …
Some years ago, Flevin Pannkal, then a 30-year-old, was waved down by the police on Container Terminal Road in Kochi city. Fifteen years after 316 families lost their land and homes across seven villages and a rehabilitation package, known as the Moolampilly package, was notified, that sense of injustice has only grown. She used to say that she had met …