The man was returning from a refugee camp in India after obtaining all necessary clearance from all relevant agencies and was certified as a refugee by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, MA Sumanthiran, a Tamil National Alliance member, said
Lankan refugees began arriving in Tamil Nadu in the 1980s. FILE PIC/PTI
A 75-year-old Sri Lankan Tamil was arrested by the country’s immigration authorities when he returned to Jaffna from a refugee camp in India, Island nation’s main Tamil party claimed on Friday.
The man was returning from a refugee camp in India after obtaining all necessary clearance from all relevant agencies and was certified as a refugee by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, MA Sumanthiran, a Tamil National Alliance member, said.
“He was produced before the magistrates court in the Northern Province by the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) and remanded till June 5,” he added. There were over 58,000 Sri Lankan refugees in over 100 camps in India in 2022, officials said.
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