The Bombay High Court is set to hear actor Imran Khan’s plea challenging a Leave India Notice issued by the Foreigners Regional Registration Officer (FRRO), Mumbai, on Tuesday as per sources.
A notice dated October 14, directs Khan to leave India by October 28. The actor later spught quashing the notice arguing that the FRRO did not give him an opportunity to respond before issuing the direction.
According to a statement issued by Khan’s public relations team, the actor, a US national and Overseas Citizen of India (OCI) cardholder, has lived in India since he was two years old and has held OCI status since 2006.
In his plea, he argued that the no5ice did not specify which provisions were invoked on him. Besides, it also challenged the absence of a show cause notice or an opportunity to be heard before passing the order.
The notice is linked to the October 10th protest were Khan was filmed in the vicinity of August Kranti Maidan and Nana Chowk in Mumbai, where he was briefly detained by police.
According to his team, the star was detained while he was returning back to his vehicle when he was surrounded by media personnel. His team maintained that he was neither an organiser of nor a participant in the protest and had gone to see what was happening.
Khan was taken to the Yellow Gate Police Station along with family members and was subsequently released, the petition states. It also refers to an FIR registered at Gamdevi Police Station on October 10 under provisions of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita.