This follows a Supreme Court ruling where the Justices unanimously overturned a high court ruling which ordered the residential and work permits of Mr. Sivaram to be restored after the Immigration Service and the Interior Ministry deported him.

[contextly_sidebar id=”T85wLRONuOzt7K2U1qYdCpnEsunHivCK”] According to the Justices of the Supreme Court, the High Court judge erred in granting the order that compelled the Immigration Service to provide the permit.

They also indicated that the judge exceeded her jurisdiction.

Citi News sources at the Ghana Immigration Service revealed that he was deported on Sunday after officials of the service stormed his residence.

Meanwhile, workers of his company Jai Mai Communication Limited on Monday staged a demonstration, protesting the deportation.

According to them, this could lead to job losses, a situation they fear will impact on them negatively.

Background

The GIS, following an order by the Interior Ministry in June 2017, deported Mr. Sivaram on the premise that he had forged his marriage certificate in an application for citizenship, which led his lawyer to contest his deportation by seeking judicial review.

The High Court, which first heard the case, upheld the businessman’s application and quashed his deportation order on July 31 on the grounds that the Interior Minister exceeded his jurisdiction.

The applicant, after the failure of the GIS to comply with the first order, sought an order from the court in September the same year to compel them to comply with the first order.

The High Court once again ordered the GIS to restore the Residence and Work Permit of Mr. Sivaram within seven days, and also ordered the GIS’s assigns, agents and servants to desist from harassing him until his application before the Service was duly processed.

The GIS, represented by the Attorney General’s office, after the second case, filed a stay of proceedings at the High Court which was subsequently dismissed.

They went ahead to appeal the ruling in the Court of Appeal which was also dismissed leading them to the Supreme Court.

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By: Fred Djabanor/citifmonline.com/Ghana

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The businessman, Ashok Sivaram, petitioned the President claiming the two schemed to illegally deport him, to pave the way for his business partner to take over his company.

[contextly_sidebar id=”joSxGpWSNV8L7qNspcK1g6bKSbzenMh8″]He also accused the Comptroller-General of refusing to comply with a High Court order to regularize his stay in the country.

But speaking to Citi News, Mr. Asuah Takyi described the allegations from Ashok Sivaram as shocking and misleading, saying the Minister had no stake in any possible deportation.

“He has misled the public. He has thrown dust into the eyes of the public. We wrote to him because he was not picking calls and if we had not written this letter to him, he would have said he did not receive any call.”

“What would the Minister of Interior, honorable Ambrose Dery, gain by interfering in the business of a foreign expatriate… why should he?”

The Interior Minister and the Comptroller-General were said to have approved the deportation of Ashok Sivaram on grounds that he obtained a fake marriage certificate to enable his stay in Ghana.

Ashok Sivaram, who had lived in the Ghana for close to a decade, refuted the claims.

The matter was resolved with legal action when the Accra High Court on July 31, 2017, quashed the deportation of Ashok Sivaram.

According to the court, the Interior Minister exceeded his jurisdiction by determining fraud against the Ashok without recourse to the court.

The court also indicated that the Interior Minister breached the rule of natural justice by not giving the plaintiff a hearing after he had accused him of allegedly committing fraud.

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By: Caleb Kudah/citifmonline.com/Ghana

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