THE REPUBLIC V. HIGH COURT (GENERAL JURISDICTION ‘5’) ACCRA EX PARTE: THE MINISTER FOR THE INTERIOR AND THE COMPROLLER-GENERAL OF IMMIGRATION SERVICE [ASHOK KUMAR SIVARAM -INTERESTED PARTY]

RULING

BENIN, JSC

The applicants herein seek to invoke this court's supervisory jurisdiction for an order of certiorari to quash the decision and/or order of the High Court, General Jurisdiction 5, dated 18th September 2017. The background facts recount that the interested party herein, an Indian national, has been lawfully resident in this country for a number of years prior to his deportation from the country on the orders of the 1st applicant herein, the Minister for the Interior (hereafter called the Minister) dated 15th May 2017 and carried out by the 2nd applicant herein, the Comptroller-General of Immigration Service (hereafter called the Comptroller), on 1st June 2017. On the same day of his deportation, the Comptroller cancelled the residence/work permit of the interested party. Following an application made on behalf of the interested party herein, the High Court, presided over by His Lordship Justice Kweku T. Ackaah-Boafo, revoked the deportation order in a ruling delivered o…