chennai sources stated that a German student at the IIT-Madras is on his way back home after the immigration department here told him to leave following his participation in multiple protests here against the caa over the last one week. Meanwhile Jakob Lindenthal, 24, was summoned by the Foreigners Regional Registration office (FRRO) on monday to be told to leave the country as he had violated his student visa conditions by participating in political rallies in the host country.
Furthermore sources at IIT said Jakob has completed his second semester with the Physics department at IIT-M and still has one more semester to be completed under his Exchange Programme that brought him here from home at Dresden in Germany. Perhaps he was spotted at several anti-CAA protests in chennai over the last one week and the media showed him holding posters with stinging slogans critical of the bjp government over caa, some of them even likening the situation to what prevailed under Hitler’s Nazi regime.
Moreover another poster screamed, ‘Uniformed criminals = criminals’, obviously referring to the police action against the JNU students. Apparently Jakob was quoted by the media as saying that the caa was “a clear form of discrimination” going against the secular indian Constitution. A popular news site quoted him saying “I am from germany and I am aware of what happens when this form of discrimination is taken too far and on his subsequent exit order, his retort was that nobody “is ever evicted from germany for participating in a legal demonstration”.
