CAT/C/67/D/787/2016
United Nations
Convention against Torture
and Other Cruel, Inhuman
or Degrading Treatment
or Punishment
Distr.: General
6 September 2019
Original: English
Committee against Torture
Decision adopted by the Committee under article 22 of the
Convention, concerning communication No. 787/2016*, **
Communication submitted by:
M.S. (represented by counsel, Rajwinder Bhambi)
Alleged victim:
The complainant
State party:
Canada
Date of complaint:
26 November 2016 (initial submission)
Substantive issue:
Risk of torture upon deportation to India
At its meeting on 26 July 2019, the Committee, not having received a response to
repeated requests for counsel’s comments on the State party’s observations, decided to
discontinue the consideration of communication No. 787/2016.
* Adopted by the Committee at its sixty-seventh session (22 July–9 August 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 and Sébastien Touzé.
GE.19-15270(E)