CJI asks for details on plea seeking relief for stranded Indian students in Ukraine
India Today
Chief Justice of India NV Ramana has asked for details while hearing a plea seeking help for Indian students stranded in war-torn Ukraine.
Chief Justice of India NV Ramana has asked for details on a plea that sought relief for Indian students stranded in Ukraine. India is operating evacuation flights and several students have been brought back home from war-hit Ukraine.
Attorney General K K Venugopal said he has looked into the petition filed by the family of 24-year-old medical student Fathima Ahana. The CJI asked for details when the matter is taken up next.
On Thursday, the CJI asked Attorney General K K Venugopal to use his office in helping evacuate some Indian medical students stranded in war-ravaged Ukraine near the Romania border.
A bench headed by Chief Justice NV Ramana took note of the submissions of a lawyer that several students are stuck near the Romanian border in freezing cold and the government is not running flights from Romania.
“Flights are being operated from Poland and Hungary and not from Romania. The students, which also included many girls, are stuck without any facility,” the lawyer told the bench, also comprising Justices A S Bopanna and Hima Kohli.
"We have all sympathies with them. But what can the court do," the bench said.
According to the plea around 250 Indian students from Odessa University have made their way to the Moldova-Romania border.
