CAT/C/68/D/848/2017
United Nations
Convention against Torture
and Other Cruel, Inhuman
or Degrading Treatment
or Punishment
Distr.: General
3 January 2020
Original: English
Committee against Torture
Decision adopted by the Committee under article 22 of the
Convention, concerning communication No. 848/2017*, **
Communication submitted by:
Y. (not represented by counsel)
Alleged victim:
The complainant
State party:
Canada
Date of complaint:
17 October 2017 (initial submission)
Substantive issue:
Risk of torture upon deportation to India
At its meeting on 15 November 2019, the Committee, not having received a response despite
sending several requests for information as to whether the complainant wished to continue
the communication, decided to discontinue the examination of communication No. 848/2017.
* Adopted by the Committee at its sixty-eighth session (11 November–6 December 2019).
** The following members of the Committee participated in the examination of the communication:
Essadia Belmir, Felice Gaer, Abdelwahab Hani, Claude Heller Rouassant, Jens Modvig, Ana Racu,
Diego Rodríguez-Pinzón, Sébastien Touzé and Bakhtiyar Tuzmukhamedov.
GE.20-00041(E)