Faesal not going to US for study: Cops

New Delhi: The Jammu and Kashmir Police has claimed that civil servant-turned-politician Shah Faesal, who was stopped at the IGI airport here from flying to the US earlier this month, did not have any document to support his claim that he was travelling to Boston to complete an academic course in Harvard University.

In an affidavit filed on August 23 in the Delhi High Court on Faesal's petition seeking his release from custody, Jammu and Kashmir Police claimed that all he had with him was a ticket from Delhi to Turkey to Germany's Frankfurt to Boston.

The affidavit, filed by Deputy Inspector General of Police, Central Kashmir, VK Birdi, also said that Faesal had B1/B2 visa issued on February 27, 2019 for a 10 year duration which is a tourist and not a student visa.