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Maharashtra allows Nitu Singh to
return
WSN Network
MUMBAI: After
courting much shame by illegally deporting an FTII student, the
Maharashtra government has now come to the rescue of Nepali citizen
Nitu Singh, allowing her to return to complete her studies at the
Film and Television Institute of India, Pune. But she has only been
allowed a brief period of 30 days.
Nitu, 30, was
deported on December 5, 2009, because of her influential husband
after police accused her of anti-national activities which it never
disclosed. The All-India Democratic Women’s Association (AIDWA) had
complained to the police seeking its intervention. The government,
however, has attached some conditions for her return; one being that
she stay away from the media.
Ms. Singh was
about to complete her three-year postgraduate diploma in film
editing. At 10.30 p.m. on December 5, two women police officers in
plainclothes went to her room and got her out allegedly on some
pretext. They packed her bags and deported her to Kathmandu. When
the FTII director intervened, he was told it was a high security
matter and that nothing could be made public.
Her husband is
an influential politician in
Nepal,
a former MP of the Nepali Congress, and someone close to the Indian
embassy.
Civil society
activists have termed the conditions imposed on her as “unfair,
unjust and absurd”. Clearly, the conditions only amount to
humiliation.
20
January 2010
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