Read the full judgment text of HCAL 606/2021 on BabelCite. This High Court CFI judgment was delivered on 31 December 2025.
1. The Applicant is a 51-year-old national of India who last arrived in Hong Kong on 8 August 2005 as a visitor with permission to remain as such up to 12 August 2005 when he did not depart and instead overstayed, and was arrested by police on 9 April 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 wife’s family over their personal disputes, and for which he comple