Read the full judgment text of HCAL 1263/2020 on BabelCite. This High Court CFI judgment was delivered on 30 October 2025.
1. The Applicant is a 42-year-old national of India who arrived in Hong Kong on 11 January 2007 as a visitor with permission to remain as such up to 18 January 2007 when he did not depart and instead overstayed, and was arrested by police more than 10 months later on 21 November 2007. After he was referred to the Immigration Department for investigation, he raised a torture claim on the basis that if he returned to India he would be harmed or killed by his sister-in-law over some land dispute in