In a significant modification to its guidelines for Look Out Circulars (LOCs), the Ministry of Home…
In a significant modification to its guidelines for Look Out Circulars (LOCs), the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) has specified that statutory bodies with no criminal jurisdiction cannot issue direct requests to the Bureau of Immigration to prevent any Indian or foreigner from leaving the country. The MHA has underlined that all such requests have to be routed through a law enforcement agency. “Whenever such an order/ request is received, the BoI (Bureau of Immigration) shall immediately return the order/ request to such bodies, informing that such bodies are not authorised to open the LOC and that they may forward the order/ request to the law enforcement agency concerned… who are authorised to the open the LOC,” the MHA said in a communication sent to all law enforcement agencies last month. It listed the National Commission for Women (NCW), National Human Rights Commission (NHRC), National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR), National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT) “or any other tribunal having no criminal jurisdiction” among such statutory bodies.
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