After German Student, 71 Y-O Norwegian Tourist Asked To Leave India For Anti-CAA Protests
"Our enquiry found that she has violated visa norms and so she was asked to go back," said Anoop Krishnan, Officer in the Foreigners Regional Registration Office.
Days after a German student Jakob Lindenthal was asked to leave the country for participating in a protest against the Citizenship Amendment Act, a Norwegian woman tourist has been asked to leave the country on similar lines after she was found to have participated in an anti-CAA protest here early this week.
A senior official attributed by news agency PTI said that she had violated visa norms.
"Our enquiry found that she has violated visa norms and so she was asked to go back," said Anoop Krishnan, Officer in the Foreigners Regional Registration Office.
The FRRO, under the Union Home Ministry, had said that it was probing the matter after it came to know through the social media that the Norwegian woman allegedly participated in the protest against Citizenship Amendment Act on December 23.
Janne-Mette Johansson said that she has been directed by the Bureau of Immigration authorities, who again came to her hotel, to leave the country at once.
"I was told to leave the country at once, or legal action would be taken", she said.
The 71-year-old woman said when she sought an explanation or something in writing, the authorities informed her that she would not get anything in writing.
She said her friend was arranging a flight ticket to Dubai, from where she would catch a flight back home to Sweden.
"The officer from the Bureau is not leaving me before he can see that I have a flight ticket", she said.
The woman, here on a tourist visa, had come under the scanner of Bureau of Immigration authorities over her participation in an anti-CAA protest in Kochi on December 23.
Johansson had earlier said that she had participated in the "Peoples Long March" against the CAA.
This episode stands as a reminder of German student Jakob Lindenthal, who had come to India under a student exchange programme, and was seen at one of the protests by students against the CAA and NRC. He was seen holding a poster that read ¡°1933 to 1945; We Have Been There,¡± referring to how Jews were targeted and eventually led to the holocaust in Nazi Germany under Hitler.
After Lindenthal was seen participating in the protests, he was reportedly summoned by the Foreigners Regional Registration Office and was asked to leave the country on Monday. He was told that taking part in the protest was in violation of visa rules.
