An Accra High Court presided over by Justice Ackaah Boafo has ordered Ghana’s Interior Minister to free an Indian businessman Ashok Kumar Sivaram, who is being detained at the Kotoka International Airport over claims that he entered the country without a visa.
The businessman who was deported from Ghana on June 1, 2017, upon a directive from the Interior Ministry to the Ghana Immigration Service (GIS) sued the sector Minister Ambrose Dery who signed off his deportation.
The plaintiff in the suit named Ambrose Dery and the Comptroller General of the Ghana Immigration Service, Kwame Takyi, as the 1st and 2nd respondent respectively with a claim the repatriation order was without any basis.
A statement of claim attached to the writ from the lawyers of the deportee attached to the writ read “The Applicant was deported from Ghana on the said morning of 1st June 2017 without any notice to him or being offered the opportunity to be heard on the allegation of forgery levelled against him.
However, In the High court on Friday, the Judge ruled in favour of the plaintiff but asked for the passport of Mr Kumar Sivaram, who re-entered the country on 2 August, to be seized by the state.
The court also added that Kumar Sivaram should report himself to the Ghana Immigration Service on Tuesday, 8 August 2017 to get his residence and working permit regularized.
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