Filmmaker David Bradbury along with his wife and son arrived in India on tourist visas and were about to enter Idinthankarai from Kanyakumari district on Thursday morning when the police stopped them near Radhapuram police station, they said.
"After interrogations, the three were made to go back, since prohibitory orders were in place," an officer said.
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