British-Indian professor in UK loses OCI status over “anti-India activities”

The government notice was shared by the professor on social platform.

STC NEWS MONITORING DESK
SRINAGAR, MAY 19 (STC):
A British-Indian professor Nitasha Kaul, a faculty member in the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Westminster, said that the Government of India had cancelled her Overseas Citizenship of India (OCI) status for “regularly targeting India and its institutions on the matters of India’s sovereignty.”
Prof. Kaul, born to a Kashmiri Pandit family that had migrated from the Downtown Srinagar to Gorakhpur, shared the notice yesterday regarding the cancellation of her OCI status on social media.
“IMPORTANT NOTE – I received a cancellation of my #OCI (Overseas Citizenship of #India) today after arriving home. A bad faith, vindictive, cruel example of #TNR (transnational repression) punishing me for scholarly work on anti-minority & anti-democratic policies of #Modi rule,” Kaul wrote on X.
The part of the notice shared by Kaul read, “…and whereas it has been brought to the notice of the Government of India that you have been indulging in anti-India activities, motivated by malice and complete disregard for facts or history.”
The notice added, “Through your numerous inimical writings, speeches and journalistic activities at various international forums and on social media platforms, you regularly target India and its institutions on the matters of India’s sovereignty.”
In a trailing post, she referred to the incident from last year when she was deported within hours of landing at the Bengaluru airport, and called it an insult to the non-BJP Karnataka state government that had invited her.
She was invited by the Karnataka government to speak at a convention, but she alleged that immigration officials refused entry to her by “informally” making “references” to her “criticism of the RSS”.
(STC)

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