An Indian descent man on Wednesday won 40,000 pounds in damages from the United Kingdom authorities for unlawfully confining him in an immigration center that prevented him from caring for his four-year-old daughter.
The man, who can only be named as AJS, won his lawful battle over “false imprisonment” and “disruption” to interact with the child, who is a Lithuanian national.
The Home Office of UK has as well been directed to pay the kid 10,000 pounds in damages and to amend the family’s legal reimbursement.
Justice Blair of the UK High Court, hearing the case, described the final result as “reassuring and heart-warming”.
The UK Home Office In 2017 after an imprisonment of AJS ordered him to be detained in an immigration center, pending his deportation back to India.
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The London Wormwood Scrubs prison house immigration powers held AJS and then the Verne immigration removal center in Dorset approximately 250 miles (400 km) away from where his daughter who was under the attention of the local authority.
A family court justice in July 2017 supported the plan of the local authority’s for AJS to after his daughter, saying that, if he was not freed within the period four months a petition would be made for the girl to be placed for adoption.
AJS was refused to move by Home Office so he could keep interaction with the girl, twice refused him bail and, when he was eventually let out, placed him on an electronic tag with a curfew which meant it was impractical for the both to be reunited.
The Home Office has now acknowledged in the court that it had acted unlawfully.
With the determination of the case this week, the procedure has begun for the man and his daughter to live together so that he can look after her.
By Sowmya
