Overview
- Justice Sachin Datta issued notice to the Home and External Affairs ministries, the Indian Embassy in Sweden and Latvia, and the Bureau of Immigration on Swain’s challenge.
- The court asked the authorities to file responses and listed the matter for the next hearing on December 18.
- Swain seeks access to records of the purported blacklisting, permission to enter India on his OCI card, and quashing of any order restraining his entry.
- He argues the entry ban violates due process because no reasons or hearing were provided, citing the Citizenship Act, constitutional protections, and principles of natural justice.
- The government has previously told the court that Swain was blacklisted for alleged anti-India writings and inflammatory speeches, even as the High Court twice set aside his OCI cancellations.