The Indian authorities have cancelled the Overseas Citizenship of India (OCI) of Nitasha Kaul, a British Kashmiri Professor of Politics and International Relations at the University of Westminster in London, over her alleged “anti-India activities”.
On Sunday, Nitasha Kaul took to social media and posted details of the communication she received from the government of India, which accuses her of acting with “malice and complete disregard for facts or history
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It follows her previous posts from February when the academic had hit back on being denied entry to India to reportedly attend a conference in Bengaluru.
In her post on X, Nitasha Kaul said that the authorities in India closely tie the arrest of academics who speak against hate to the removal of access to the country and family for academics living outside India.
“Idea is to send a signal — don’t dare challenge us within and don’t dare analyse what’s going on to convey to audiences outside,” she said.
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OCI Status Can Be Revoked for Showing Disaffection Towards Indian Constitution: High Commission of India in London
Under the OCI rules stipulated by the High Commission of India in London, the government of India may cancel the OCI registration of any individual on certain specific grounds, including when it determines that the overseas citizen of India has shown disaffection towards the Constitution of India as established by law.
An excerpt of the cancellation document purportedly received from the government of India accuses Kaul of making “numerous inimical writings, speeches and journalistic activities at various international forums and on social media platforms” that target “India and its institutions on the matters of India’s sovereignty”.
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Nitasha Kaul, Director of the Centre for the Study of Democracy at the University of Westminster, has condemned the Indian government’s revocation of her OCI as a “bad faith, vindictive, cruel example of transnational repression” and claimed that the authorities have punished her for her “scholarly work on anti-minority and anti-democratic policies”.