Francesca Orsini, a Hindi scholar and professor at London’s School of Oriental and African Studies, was allegedly stopped from entering India on Monday despite having a valid five-year visa, The Wire reported.

Orsini had arrived in Delhi from Hong Kong after attending an academic conference in China, according to the news portal. However, the immigration authorities allegedly denied her entry into the country.

The scholar said that no reason was provided for the denial.

“I am being deported,” The Wire quoted her as saying. “That is all I know.”

Orsini, an undergraduate in Hindi from Venice University in Italy, studied in New Delhi at the Central Institute of Hindi and Jawaharlal Nehru University. She completed her PhD at SOAS, which is part of the University of London.

Her wor

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