New Delhi: Government has revoked its order&nbsp;barring a Greenpeace India activist, who was controversially&nbsp;offloaded from flying to London in January, from travelling&nbsp;abroad, the NGO claimed today.
"Greenpeace India campaigner Priya Pillai visited the&nbsp;Foreigners Regional Registration Office (FRRO) in Delhi to&nbsp;have the 'offload' stamp officially expunged from her&nbsp;passport," a Greenpeace India statement said.&nbsp;
It said the travel restriction was overturned by the Delhi&nbsp;High Court in March, and formally revoked today.&nbsp;
The green body said the FRRO's decision marked "the end of&nbsp;a four month ordeal" triggered by a controversial "look-out&nbsp;circular" in her name from the Intelligence Bureau.&nbsp;
Pillai was stopped at the New Delhi airport in January by&nbsp;the immigration office from boarding her flight to London&nbsp;where she was to address British Parliamentarians.&nbsp;
"Today I feel relief as well as great pride in India's&nbsp;legal system and our democracy. But we should not have to rely&nbsp;on the courts to deal with overzealous actions from the MHA.
"As I speak, Greenpeace India's national bank accounts&nbsp;are still blocked, that means Indian citizens are being&nbsp;prevented from supporting a democratic cause. That is&nbsp;shameful," Pillai said.
She hoped that the courts will rule in Greenpeace India's&nbsp;favour as its case was "strong".
"But the MHA knows that we do not have much time left. It&nbsp;lacks the courage to try to ban Greenpeace outright and is&nbsp;using arbitrary penalties to strangle us. This won't work. I&nbsp;am confident that democracy will win in the end," she added.
Greenpeace India had recently said it was staring at an&nbsp;imminent shutdown in the absence of funds to pay salaries of&nbsp;its staff after its domestic bank accounts were blocked by the&nbsp;Home Ministry.
The government has barred Greenpeace India from receiving&nbsp;foreign funds by suspending its licence for six months and&nbsp;freezing all its accounts after alleging that it has&nbsp;"prejudicially" affected the country's interests.
The NGO has also submitted a comprehensive rebuttal to&nbsp;the Home Ministry's show-cause notice and demanded immediate&nbsp;unblocking of its funds.

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Government has revoked its order&nbsp;barring a Greenpeace India activist, who was controversially&nbsp;offloaded from flying to London in January, from travelling&nbsp;abroad

Indian Govt revokes travel ban on Greenpeace activist Priya Pillai

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