75. of His Divine Holiness' Passport

29 April 2010 : While His Divine Holiness had been unlawfully arrested, and still in prison, Gurumurthy, the mastermind behind the Extremist Hindu Forces, used his influence in the Police to have His Divine Holiness' passport revoked.

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Nithvananda can now travel abroad as the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) has ordered immediate return of his passport which was impounded after his arrest in An

Passport seized icers had Nithyananda's passport on April 29 after the director-general of police had asked the pass port office to imp nd the godman's passport. Invoking a section timbers of the Passports Act, 1967, the p officers had confiscated his

Nithvananda's lawvers had appeal to the lawvers had also later filed nd artional affidav with the MEA gued that it is the fundamenta an individual to travel, and the olice had no powers to curtail th

The lawyers argued that the passport was seized when there was a tendency of a criminal case and merely a first information report will not empower the passport office to seize it.

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