Date:07/11/2009 URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2009/11/07/stories/2009110760191000.htm

National

Visa process ‘short-circuited’

Special Correspondent

NEW DELHI: Foreign journalists who obtained inner line permits to be present in Arunachal Pradesh during Dalai Lama’s visit had “short-circuited” the visa process, official sources here said.

They said that the foreign journalists should have applied for the permits through the Ministry for External Affairs.

But according to their “understanding,” the scribes had short-circuited the visa process and applied directly to the Arunachal Bhavan here for inner line permits.

“When the Arunachal Pradesh government realised this, they withdrew the permits,” said the sources.