Chennai: Sarah Thomas was detained by immigration officials at Chennai airport late last month on her arrival from Dubai, despite her protests that she had no case against her. The Kerala police then took her to Punalur in Kollam district in connection with a 13-year-old cheating case in which the accused was absconding.
It took four days and a notice from the Madras high court for police to realize that it was a bad case of identity mix-up, wherein Sarah Thomas had been mistaken for Sara Williams, the absconding accused in the cheating case. The innocent Sarah was released from prison, and the case closed. But it is payback time now.
A division bench of Justice S Tamilvanan and Justice T Mathivanan of the Madras high court on Tuesday summoned the senior immigration officer on duty at the time of her detention at the international airport. It asked the officer to be present before the bench at 10.30am on November 27 to explain his actions. Saying that he was at liberty to file a counter-affidavit, the judges warned that in case he failed to appear they would pass "appropriate orders".
26/11/14 A Subramani/Times of India
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It took four days and a notice from the Madras high court for police to realize that it was a bad case of identity mix-up, wherein Sarah Thomas had been mistaken for Sara Williams, the absconding accused in the cheating case. The innocent Sarah was released from prison, and the case closed. But it is payback time now.
A division bench of Justice S Tamilvanan and Justice T Mathivanan of the Madras high court on Tuesday summoned the senior immigration officer on duty at the time of her detention at the international airport. It asked the officer to be present before the bench at 10.30am on November 27 to explain his actions. Saying that he was at liberty to file a counter-affidavit, the judges warned that in case he failed to appear they would pass "appropriate orders".
26/11/14 A Subramani/Times of India
