The Delhi High Court on Friday asked the Union government to respond to a petition filed by academician Ashok Swain challenging an alleged blacklisting order that has prevented him from entering India.

Justice Sachin Datta issued notice to the Union Ministries of Home Affairs and External Affairs, the Embassy of India to Sweden and Latvia, and the Bureau of Immigration. They have been asked to file their replies within three weeks. The case will be heard next on December 18.

Swain, a professor and head of the Department of Peace and Conflict Research at Uppsala University in Sweden, told the court that he is being denied entry on the basis of an undisclosed blacklisting order. According to the petition, neither the contents of the order nor the legal basis for it have been communicated t

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