Chhattisgarh HC Intervention Paves Way for Deportation of 2 Uzbekistan Women Under Detention
The women were in Raipur jail since January for lack of documents
Raipur: Intervention by the Chhattisgarh high court has paved the way for deportation of two Uzbekistan women, under alleged detention in Raipur Central Jail since January this year for lack of documents.
Disposing of a case related to the issue, a division bench comprising Chief Justice Ramesh Sinha and Justice Ravindra Kumar Agrawal has cleared the deportation of the two foreign nationals noting that it is also being proposed by the ‘state and Union of India’.
The embassy of Republic of Uzbekistan in India, during the hearing in the case, has requested the court that an order of urgent deportation in respect of the petitioners may be passed, assuring that it is ready to issue necessary documentations and arrangements for the same and ‘would extend every possible assistance to facilitate the deportation process as expeditiously as possible’.
Two Uzbekistan women, Feruza Sabirova and Dinora Safytdinova, were taken into custody by the local police from a private hotel in Raipur on January nine, 2026 on charges of overstaying in India, as per their counsel.
Feruza had lost her passport and visa and the passport of Dinora was found valid but her visa was found to have expired on May 16, 2025.
The counsel for the petitioners alleged that the two foreign nationals have been sent to the detention Centre in the Raipur Central Jail on January 14, 2026 and are in the Centre since then.
The prosecution however submitted that the two foreign nationals had been overstaying in India illegally for which an FIR has been lodged against them as a cognizable offence was made out and they were arrested on April 26 this year.
Information of the same was also given to their family members as well as the embassy of Uzbekistan, New Delhi, and the Ministry of External Affairs, the prosecution submitted.
The two women were produced before the chief judicial magistrate, Raipur, on April 26, 2026 from where the petitioners were sent to the judicial remand and were kept at Central Jail in Raipur, the prosecution said.
“The petitioners have been residing in India without having valid passports and visas. The detention of the petitioners cannot be said to be illegal”, the prosecution argued.
The prosecution said that the two foreign nationals would be deported to their country very soon.