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Satya Prakash
New Delhi, March 4
The Centre on Friday advised the Supreme Court that 17,000 stranded Indian college students have been evacuated so removed from Ukraine amid the Russian invasion and the remaining have been within the technique of being rescued.
Attorney General KK Venugopal—who was requested by the highest court docket on Thursday to speak to the Government to assist medical college students from close to the Romania border in Ukraine – led by CJI NV Ramana petitioner Fathima Ahana and college students would land in India tonight. He, nonetheless, stated roughly 7,000 Indian college students have been nonetheless there.
“We are not saying a single word, anything about the efforts which you are taking. We appreciate that but at the same time, we are also concerned about the anxiety of the people,” the Bench famous.
Asking the Centre to contemplate organising a “helpline” for the dad and mom and households of stranded college students in Ukraine, the highest court docket mounted the matter for additional listening to on subsequent Friday.
The Bench made it clear that top courts shouldn’t hear petitions on evacuation of scholars from Ukraine to keep away from multiplicity of litigation because it was already coping with the difficulty.
Venugopal advised the Bench that he contacted PK Mishra, Principal Secretary to the Prime Minister on Thursday about Ahana who was unable to cross over to Romania from Ukraine and Mishra communicated the message together with Ahana’s quantity to Union Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia – who’s there in Romania to coordinate evacuation of Indian college students from Ukraine by way of Romania.
“She (Ahana) is now in Romania…I expect that she and the persons accompanying her, the other college students, will come back by tonight,” Venugopal advised the Bench.
“Attorney General, we sincerely thank you very much for the efforts which you made by taking personal interest in this matter,” the CJI advised Venugopal.
During the listening to, the Bench stated, “It is unfortunate we haven’t learnt lessons from history where the human race has been fighting wars and killing people and all that. Conflicts can be resolved through negotiations… We have no say in these issues. But, the anxiety for us is how to save these students.”
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