Aircel founder moves HC to quash lookout circular

CHENNAI : Industrialist C Sivasankaran, presently staying in a hotel in MRC Nagar in R A Puram, has moved the Madras High Court to revoke a ‘look out circular’ (LOC) issued by the Foreigner Regional Registration Officer (FRRO) of the Bureau of Immigration, Ministry of Home Affairs under Sec.10-B of the Passport Act, against him, after declaring it as an arbitrary exercise of power, abuse of authority and without jurisdiction.

And Justice AD Jagadish Chandra, before whom the writ petition from Sivasankaran, the founder of Aircel and presently a citizen of Seychelles and enjoying the attendant privileges and rights concomitant with his position as a foreign ambassador/diplomat, came up for hearing, ordered notice to the authorities concerned on Tuesday.