New Delhi: The Delhi high court on Monday (September 10) issued notice to the Union government on a plea filed by Ashok Swain challenging the government’s decision to cancel his Overseas Citizen of India (OCI) cards. Swain is a professor at Uppsala University in Sweden.Justice Subramonium Prasad directed the Indian government to submit its response within four weeks and scheduled the case for hearing in November, Bar and Bench reported.This is the second time Swain’s OCI card has been cancelled. After the first cancellation (done in February), the Delhi high court had set aside the government’s order. “This is hardly an order; it does not give any reasons. It hardly gives any indication of the application of mind on the matter,” Justice Prasad said in July this year. The court had also then told the government to pass a fresh, more reasoned order in the matter.On July 30, the Union government once again cancelled Swain’s OCI card. His petition states that the government does not refer to any specific instances or statements to argue that Swain has been involved in “anti-India” activities. He also says that he is an academic and should not be targeted for his views, even if they go against the regime in power.Swain’s petition states that his elderly mother lives in India and he has been unable to visit her for three years. “The Petitioner is the only son, and has not been to India in the past 3 years. Thus, there is an extreme urgency for him to visit India and attend to his ailing mother,” Swain’s plea said.