You can visit FRRO office personally and check whether they LOC is cancelled as per court orders
Is there a place I can check if current active LOC is cancelled and FRRO has received cancellation before I book my international flight? I was detained at Delhi airport when travelling outside for an LOC that was out for a case that was in quashing. I have court order for IO to cancel the LOC and report it to FRRO.
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Do they answer the support center phon number? I am not in Delhi and would be a trip to find out this. If not can my lawyer go and find out that?
It is not sufficient to get an quash order of the case in which loc is issued. There is procedure to get it cancelled. Get the quash order with cancellation of loc served on Deputy Director, Bureau of Immigration (BOI), East Block VIII, R.K. Puram, New Delhi—110066 and obtain a cancellation order or you can ascertain from the same authority if the loc is cancelled. All the process can done through your lawyer.
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if there is any Court order regarding the removal/cancelation of LOC then your counsel may file an application before the court who passed that order and call status report from the IO, IO is duty-bound to produce a report along with all the documents, and inform the current status of the LOC.
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You were detained in the Airport while you were trying to travel abroad on the basis of the LOC existing on your name, this is an ample proof that there subsists a LOC against your name.
Just because you have applied for quashing the criminal case pending against you, you will not become eligible to get the LOC against your name removed.
LOC once issued remains in the system of the MEA (Ministry of External Affairs) forever till it is requested to be removed.
Request the IO (Investigative Officer) of the case to remove the LOC post the Charge-sheet has been filed, since your presence is no more required by police for any further investigation.
IO plays a very important role, since any removal of LOC request has to be initiated ONLY by him which moves to DCP’s desk > FRRO’s desk > MHA > MEA
Post your chargesheet filing by IO, you may as well approach the court for removal of the LOC and hope the court obliges.
You should hire a lawyer for this. Contact any lawyer from this portal. Do not travel to India until you are certain that look out circular has been cancelled.
FRRO would not divulge such information over call. your appointed lawyer can find out the details from the relevant authorities on your behalf.
1. You shall have to send your representative to the local FRRO office to enquire about the matter.
2. Carry the said Court order while travelling to India to produce before the Immigration Department in case you are detained.
1. It is not advisable to go by the telephoning information given by the FRRO office.
2. It will be prudent on your part to physically send your representative to the office of the FRRO.
- The LOC notice is issued by an officer not below the rank of Deputy Secretary to the Government of India/Joint Secretary in the State Government/Superintendent of Police concerned at the district level.
- Further, this notice having all the identification details of the accused person on an already prescribed format.
- Further, this notice is valid for one year from the date of issue , but if the originating agency wants to increase the period of this notice, it may do so before the completion of one year.
- Further, if this notice issued by a Court and Interpol , then it cannot expire within on year.
- Further, it is mandatory that the accused should be informed for the said notice has been issued against him, but generally an accused person comes to know about such notice only when he/she is stopped or arrested by the immigration authorities at the airport/border etc
- Since your case already quashed from the High court , then you can produce the copy of the same before the FRRO official.