Lookout circular on the basis of PE has no legal sanctity in court: Experts

The Delhi High Court in 2010 had laid down the circumstances under which an investigating agency could seek recourse to an LOC

On January 11, 2015, immigration authorities at the Delhi airport prevented Greenpeace activist Priya Pillai from boarding a flight to UK on the directives of the Union government. Her passport was stamped with an "offload" mark despite Pillai holding valid travel documents and no criminal case pending against her in the country.

Pillai was going to brief the UK parliamentarians about the impact of a London-based company's mining project on local tribes in India. The government tried to defend its action in the court saying that her testimony could have been “prejudicial to national interests". The court, however, rejected the