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Query responses are replies to focused queries or requests for Information that are submitted in the course of the refugee status determination process.
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India: 1. What is the process for adding a spouse to a passport? 2. Is it possible for a man in India, living in Punjab state, to marry another woman without a divorce from an earlier marriage? 3. What would be the status of a second marriage, conducted without obtaining a divorce from one's first marriage? That is, would a first marriage still be in force or is the second marriage not a legal one?

26 April 2012 | Publisher: Australia: Refugee Review Tribunal | Document type: Query Responses

India: 1. Do the Nai Sikh, Rai Sikh, and Jatt Sikh castes exist? If so, please provide general information on each, including whether Nai Sikh and Rai Sikh are ever described as being Backward Classes or Other Backward Classes? 2. Is there such a document as Punjab Government's letter No.1/88/93 RC-1/1016 dated 2.2.94? 3. Are people targeted in Faridkot, Punjab, for marrying outside their caste? Please provide current information. 4. Could an educated couple in an inter-caste marriage relocate from the Punjab to another part of India? 5. Are there systems in place that would enable a policeman from the Punjab to be able to trace family members anywhere in India?

4 April 2012 | Publisher: Australia: Refugee Review Tribunal | Document type: Query Responses

India: 1. Please provide some background information on the Brahmin Arya Samag BAS, e.g. its purpose, where it is based, and the nature of its activities. 2. Please provide information on whether the BAS is in conflict and tension with Sikhs in Ludhiana, Punjab, or vice versa. If they are in conflict, what is the basis of their disagreement? 3. Please provide information on whether there are any reports on whether Sikhs in Ludiahana have targeted or attacked BAS members in recent times.

13 February 2012 | Publisher: Australia: Refugee Review Tribunal | Document type: Query Responses

India: 1. Please provide background information on AISSF and any ill-treatment of its members by the authorities in India. 2. Is there a link between AISSF and followers of Khalistan? 3. Is there any evidence that members of AISSF are targeted by the authorities for having links with the Pakistan ISI?

18 January 2012 | Publisher: Australia: Refugee Review Tribunal | Document type: Query Responses

India: 1. Please provide up-to-date information about general aspects of treatment of homosexuals in India and Sikhs/homosexuality/relocation of homosexual Sikhs.

12 January 2012 | Publisher: Australia: Refugee Review Tribunal | Document type: Query Responses

India: 1. Please provide background information on the activities of the DSS, including how widespread their activities are in India. 2. Is there any information on DSS members being attacked by Sikh 'extremist' groups? If so, are attacks limited to particular geographic locations in India? 3. Is there any evidence of government authorities in India supporting Sikh 'extremist groups' in their violence against members of the DSS?

12 January 2012 | Publisher: Australia: Refugee Review Tribunal | Document type: Query Responses

India: 1. Please provide information on any reports of DSS followers being targetted for harm in Punjab or elsewhere in India since February 2010. 2. Is there any evidence of the Indian police or security forces denying protection to or not investigating complaints from DSS followers since 2009?

4 August 2011 | Publisher: Australia: Refugee Review Tribunal | Document type: Query Responses

India: 1. Are there reports that those who, since 2006, called for investigations into the violence against Sikhs - which occurred in the period from the early 1980s to 1993 - have been targeted by Indian authorities? 2. Are supporters of the Akali Dal party targeted by Indian authorities? 3. Please provide an update (preferably within the last six months) on the treatment of Sikhs by authorities in India and in Punjab in particular

13 April 2011 | Publisher: Australia: Refugee Review Tribunal | Document type: Query Responses

India: 1. Please provide information about the Hindu Sheve Sana Party, the Hindu Dharam Parchar Party. 2. Is Shiv Sena an integral part of the BJP? Is it also linked to the RSS? 3. Please provide information about the student wing of the Hindu Sheve Sana Party in Punjab. What are its policies? Is it mostly comprised of Hindu students? 4. Please provide information about the Khalistan Student Federation (KSF) in Punjab. 5. Is there a history of conflict between the KSF and the student wing in Punjab from 2005 onwards? Now? Is there any record of a hit list operated by the KSF? If so, would it keep names from several years previously? 6. Is there police protection available in respect of harassment by KSF or Khalistan people? 7. Deleted. 8. Is there any record of the KSF working underground? Are they meant to be dissolved? Are they still active? What is meant by the expression that the Sikhs do not leave revenge referring to the death of Mrs Gandhi? 9. Are the KSF or the Khalistan people active in all areas of India? 10. Please provide information about possible relocation in India. 11. Please provide any other information that you consider relevant to these issues

15 March 2011 | Publisher: Australia: Refugee Review Tribunal | Document type: Query Responses

India: 1. Please provide information on the process of lodging police reports. What documents would be involved? 2. What information is there on the mafia in Punjab? Do they engage in land grabs? 3. Does the mafia in Punjab target Sikhs? 4. Please provide an update as to whether the Akali Dal are still the governing party in Punjab and whether the Prime Minister is still a Sikh.

21 February 2011 | Publisher: Australia: Refugee Review Tribunal | Document type: Query Responses

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