City man fails to get HC relief to fly to US over bank fraud

City man fails to get HC relief to fly to US over bank fraud

Court Seeks Reply From Union Govt

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Hyderabad:21.05.2021

The Telangana high court on Thursday declined to give any interim relief to a city resident who sought permission to fly to the United States.

Refusing to accept the pleas of petitioner Kanumuri Venkata Subba Raju, Justice Abhinand Kumar Shavili issued notices to the Centre, immigration officials and sought their replies within two weeks. The judge was hearing a petition of Subba Raju who said that the immigration officer at the Rajiv Gandhi International Airport affixed a stamp on his passport indicating that it stood cancelled.

Stating that a person who defrauded a bank should not talk about rules and procedures when he was facing a lookout circular and was prevented from flying to the US, the judge said: “You cheat a bank and when the aggrieved bank writes to the Centre and got a lookout circular issued against you, you are now talking about rules and procedures. I cannot accept this.” The judge asked the petitioner to make UCO Bank a party.

Subba Raju’s counsel argued that there was no criminal case against him and that it was not right to stop him from going to the US as he had already acquired the US citizenship. “It is unlawful to prevent him to leave India,” he said, and added that all this was done at the behest of UCO Bank, Kolkata. The judge then asked the petitioner why did not he make the bank a party to his petition. Subba Raju is a resident of Kavuri Hills near Madhapur.