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**An Indian boy abandoned by his parents in London two years ago can now return home after the authorities granted him temporary travel documents.**Twelve-year-old Gurrinderjit Singh was discovered at a bus stop in Southall in west London.
It is believed his parents abandoned him after moving to Europe as illegal immigrants. They are still untraced.
The decision to allow him to return to India is the culmination of a protracted legal battle.
The London Borough of Ealing took the unprecedented step of petitioning the Punjab and Haryana high court in the northern Indian city of Chandigarh over the issue.
On Wednesday, the ministry of external affairs finally granted Gurrinderjit an emergency certificate for travel.
‘Constitutional violation’
Lawyer Anil Malhotra, who represented Ealing in the court, told the BBC that “winning Gurrinderjit’s right to come back to his home in India has been a major challenge”.
At present living in foster care in the UK, the boy had been denied travel documents because neither of his parents was available to support his application at India’s high commission in London.
According to Mr Malhotra, “his father Mohinder Singh is living in Italy and mother Deepinder Kaur was reported to be in the UK but had abandoned the boy and not responded thereafter”.
Following the petition filed by Ealing in November, the high court agreed that to deny Gurrinderjit a passport could be construed as a violation of the Indian constitution which guarantees every citizen the right to life and liberty.
A BBC correspondent in Punjab says that while the judicial intervention seems to have nudged the Indian authorities into issuing the travel documents, they have agreed to do so only on the condition that the London Borough of Ealing would be responsible “to take the child safely and hand him over to the identified paternal or maternal guardian in India”.
Gurrinderjit is now expected to fly back under the care of a British social worker on his 12th birthday on 21 April.
The boy is expected to be handed over to his paternal uncle, Kuldip Singh, a farmer in Punjab state.