Toronto: A pair from Punjab who argued their lives have been in danger in the event that they have been deported to India attributable to their alleged hyperlinks to the Khalistan motion, have been denied refugee standing by Canadian authorities.

Rajvinder Kaur and Randhir Singh, each primarily based in Montreal, had claimed refugee standing however have been turned down by the Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada (IRB), in accordance with the outlet CTV News.

They’d claimed they have been “victims of political violence”, in accordance with the report. It added that Kaur mentioned her husband had been “arrested and tortured by inside safety police on suspicions he provided shelter to radicalised Sikhs searching for independence”.

Their lawyer Stewart Istvanffy was cited as saying that their solely hope was intervention by Canada’s Immigration Minister.

This isn’t the primary case the place an individual from India dealing with potential deportation from Canada had used the opportunity of repercussions attributable to their suspected hyperlinks to Khalistan to hunt political refuge within the nation.

Amongst them is former worldwide pupil from India Karamjit Kaur, primarily based in Edmonton, who confronted deportation associated to the continued circumstances involving a number of ex-students who attained research permits at Canadian establishments primarily based on fraudulent documentation ready by an immigration agent in India.

In Might this 12 months, previous to such deportation being frozen by Canada’s Immigration Minister, had put in an utility that she be allowed to stay in Canada on humanitarian grounds as returning to India “would put her life at risk”, in accordance with a report on the time within the outlet CBC News. She was additionally represented by Istvanffy who had argued that Kaur “was additionally in danger due to circulating photographs exhibiting she had attended an illustration in help of the Khalistani separatist motion”.

Refugee claims pertaining to India arer usually linked to the Khalistan problem and numerous them are usually not accepted.

Within the first quarter of 2023, the IRB accepted 833 claims and rejected 722. In earlier years, rejection numbers have been bigger than these for acceptance. In 2022, these accepted have been at 3,469 and rejected at 3,797, as per IRB statistics. Equally, in 2021, the variety of refugee claims accepted totalled 1,043 as towards 1,652 rejections.