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Onkar Singh in New Delhi
The Delhi high court has stayed the deportation of four Nepalese nationals, including three journalists, who were arrested by the special branch of the Delhi police on July 11 for their alleged connections with banned Maoist organisations in Nepal.
The division bench of the Delhi high court comprising Justice Dalvir Bhandari and Justice Rupinder Singh Sodhi passed the stay order on the application moved by Surinder Mohan, Janata Party veteran.
"The two judges passed the order after the government counsel Jayant Tripathi gave an undertaking that the arrested Nepalese would not be deported," the advocate for the detained Nepalese journalists, Nityaramakrishna, told rediff.com on Saturday.
The four arrested are P Chertri, Maheshwar Dehal and Aditi -- all journalists and Moti Prasad, a student.
They were picked up along with nine Indians from Triveni Kala Sangam near Bengali Market in New Delhi after they were emerging after an informal discussion on how to organise a big meeting on August 2 to protest against the Nepalese government's operations against Maoist insurgents.
A top official of the Delhi Police denied that there was any move to harass anyone.
"Those arrested have links with some banned organisations in Nepal and hence they had been arrested and would be deported," he said.
He refused to divulge whether the arrested people have already been deported.
Senior journalist and Member of Parliament Kuldeep Nayar described the arrests as 'totally unwarranted' and asked the journalistic community to raise their voice against the manner in which the Delhi police picked up people without assigning any reasons.
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