NMC founder challenges Indian immigration's move to prevent him flying to UAE | Reuters
The founder of troubled hospital operator NMC Health has filed a legal challenge against a move by Indian immigration authorities to prevent him from departing to the United Arab Emirates (UAE) last month, according to his court petition seen by Reuters.
BR Shetty’s NMC, listed in London and UAE’s biggest hospital group, went into administration in April following months of turmoil over its finances and the company’s disclosure that it had $6.6 billion (4.9 billion pounds) in debt, well above its earlier estimates.
Shetty had said last month he planned to return to the UAE and denied reports he had fled the country after the hospital group’s implosion.
His petition, filed in the high court in the southern Indian state of Karnataka on Nov. 30, said immigration officials at Bengaluru airport stopped him boarding a flight to the UAE on Nov 14, “without assigning any reasons whatsoever”.
Shetty said in the petition that he then asked the immigration department why he was stopped and for permission to travel abroad but had not heard from them since.
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