Ottawa: Indian filmmaker Vijay Kumar is still not free to leave Canada. He has been detained since Wednesday and questioned by immigration authorities in Canada.
Kumar has not been charged yet but will be defending himself in court for deportation. The filmmaker was detained in Canada just a day after being freed by US. Vijay served a 20-day jail term in Houston for carrying brass knuckles and jihadi literature in his bag to the airport.
He was questioned again on Friday night and the Indian filmmaker will be defending himself in the court for deportation. Vijay Kumar had been arrested in the US for carrying jihadi literature and brass knuckles.
After the US authorities gave him the green signal to leave, it had seemed that it was an end to the tumultuous few weeks for him during which he was arrested and jailed for over 20 days in the US.
Kumar had pleaded no contest to the charges of illegally carrying brass knuckles in his luggage in exchange for time served, to avoid a lengthy trial.
He claims he was carrying jihadi literature to participate in a seminar in the United States.
Vijay Kumar, 40, had been arrested at Houston airport on August 20 after being found carrying the prohibited item and jihadi literature.
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