Love-lorn Lankan girl creates flutter at Chennai Airport
G. Saravanan
It was an unusual drama at the Chennai Airport in the early hours of
Saturday when a Sri Lankan girl with a deportation order refused to
board a Colombo-bound flight.
According to sources, Hanifa Nisha Rani was directed to return to Sri
Lanka with an emergency visa by a Court in Andhra Pradesh after
completing a two-year jail term for entering India with a fake Indian
passport two years ago.
Rani lived in Kuwait and reportedly fell in love with an Andhra boy
there. When he returned to India for good, Rani reportedly took a fake
passport to land in India in search of her lover, to eventually get
united with him.
But the love-struck girl was caught at the Hyderabad Airport for
entering India with a fake passport and subsequently jailed for three
years.
Since her conduct was good at prison, a local Court reduced her jail
term by a year and ordered her deportation to Lanka.
Based on an Andhra Court's request, Sri Lankan Deputy High Commission
in Chennai issued an Emergency Certificate (EC) for deportation in
October first week.
After clearance from Andhra, two policemen brought her to Chennai, to
be sent to Colombo.
After getting the boarding pass for a flight, Rani's behaviour
changed dramatically at the airport lobby as she refused to board the
aircraft. She even tore the EC and other documents needed for the
travel.
She also pleaded with police officials and airline staff to allow her
to stay in India so that she could continue to search for her lover for
whom she had come from her homeland three years ago. Though Rani claimed
she had no relatives now in Lanka, Deputy High Commission sources
confirmed that her parents now live at Anuradhapura.
While airport sources said that she would be accommodated in any
late-night flight to Colombo, Deputy High Commission sources said that
her journey to Colombo is very likely to be delayed since she did not
have her EC.
She now needs a new EC and it could be issued only after today, it is
reliably learnt.
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