Read the full judgment text of HCMA 000136/2002 on BabelCite. This High Court CFI judgment was delivered on 3 April 2002.
1. The Appellant is a Sri Lankan man in his late twenties. He arrived in Hong Kong on 19 March 2001 and was given permission to stay until 19 April 2001. While here he lost his Sri Lankan passport, and he bought an Indian passport in the name of Shanmugam Anandan from an unknown man in Tsim Sha Tsui in October 2001. By then, he was already an overstayer. It was his intention to travel to Europe on his Indian passport. But on 4 January this year, he was arrested when he, together with another thr