A terrorist who has been living in Britain for more than 20 years must be allowed to stay permanently, a High Court judge has ruled.
The Sikh extremist, who lives in Leicester, had pursued his terrorist activities after arriving in the UK in 1995 and was viewed as a national security risk. But Mr Justice Collins said he now has a British wife and children - and the time had come to let him stay.
A nine-year Home Office delay in deciding his case was "clearly inexcusable", the judge added. He also lifted a home curfew order so that the man, in his 40s, is now free to come and go as he pleases.
The man, who cannot be named, was not entitled to refugee status, because of his terrorist activities, said the judge. But the Home Office accepted that deporting him to India would expose him to a "real risk" of torture, inhuman treatment, or even death.
Under a tough Home Office order imposed in 2014, he was banned from leaving his home address for more than three nights in a row. He was also told not to get a job, either paid or unpaid, or to embark on any course of study without the Home Secretary's consent.
But the judge said he is now "very settled" in the UK, with a British citizen wife and children.
The home curfew and restrictions on his employment were also "unreasonable" and "unnecessary", the judge concluded.
