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Germany rejects asylum plea of five Indians

New Delhi, April 9
Germany has rejected the asylum petition of five Indians who were smuggled into Germany as part of a dance troupe, official sources here said today. The five included Randeep Singh, Gurmeet Kaur, Amanpreet Singh and Satnam Singh who had sought political asylum in Germany on the pretext of being “Sikh” who were subjected to gross human rights violations.

Randeep Singh is the son of Har Gulab Singh, who is one of the four persons named by the CBI in its FIR. The other three are senior Indian Foreign Service official Rakesh Kumar, accused of being involved in human trafficking when he was the Director-General of the Indian Council for Cultural Relations, ICCR programme officer Kehkashan Tyagi and S K Sharma, alleged to be the conduit.

Since the asylum plea was not accepted by the German authorities, all five were put on “necessry hold” for two months during which they could file their review application to the authorities in Berlin, the sources said.

The five could be deported to India if the review petition was not accepted by Germany. In the meantime, the five had been kept in the asylum house in Berlin.

Meanwhile, Kumar, Special Secretary in the Ministry of External Affairs, who broke his journey and was admitted to a hospital in Munich, is likely to arrive here tomorrow, the sources said. — PTI