Taranjit Bajaj is a 27 year old Sikh man who originally fled Afghanistan with his family in 2003.

In Afghanistan his father owned business selling tyres and car parts. When the Taliban where still in power, Sikhs in Afghanistan faced many problems, Sikh temples were seized and used as military bases and Sikhs and Hindus were forced to wear yellow patches on their clothes to highlight that they were not Muslim. In Afghanistan, his dad faced repeated threats and extortion. His fatherâs business was seized by the Taliban and Taranjit's eldest brother, Ratan, was kidnapped and killed by the Taliban. In 2002 Taranjit, his mum and dad, a sister, and two brothers fled the country. Since then his sister has married and has since then received leave to remain and lives in London.

In January 2006, another of Taranjitâs brothers Joginder, aged 26, was forcibly returned to Afghanistan by the Home Office and his family have deep fears that he has been kidnapped and killed because they have not heard anything from him since then.

Despite evidence that two of Taranjit's brothers have disappeared and may have been kidnapped and killed because they belong to a religious minority that have had a history of being persecuted in Afghanistan, the Home Office still want to remove Taranjit as well.

In Taranjit's initial case, the judge decided that nothing sinister could be inferred from the fact that the family had heard nothing from his brother Joginder since heâd been forcibly returned to Afghanistan. In April 2007, Taranjit lodged fresh evidence from Afghanistan from the Director of the National Council of Afghanistan stating that his brother had been kidnapped and was still missing. Twenty months later, after he was detained on Friday, Taranjit was given a refusal letter for his lawyer stating that ãeven if the letter [from the Director] is genuine this is not conclusive proof that your client cannot return to Afghanistan.ä

Taranjitâs dad, Karter Singh, who is 63 and disabled due to a severely curved spine, is also fighting to stay in the UK with Taranjit's mum, Dalel Kaur, and youngest brother Saman who still lives with them. Taranjit is fighting his own asylum case after his dad and mum were forced to claim Section 4 support to stop being made homeless (despite his disability) in 2006.

As a result after he was detained when reporting at the Home Office at 4.30 on a Friday evening Taranjit's mum and dad couldn't get to visit him as he did not get into the Dungavel detention centre until the very end of visiting hours. This made it impossible for his family or any of his many friends in Glasgow to see him on Friday evening. Then at 8.30 on the Saturday morning he was rushed away from Dungavel to a holding centre at Manchester Airport so his parents have not even had the chance to go and visit him at the detention centre. He has now been told he is being moved to Tinsley House on Sunday.

We also think it's possible that there has been a mix up with Taranjit's case as the Home Office claim that in August 2006 Taranjit, a single man, claimed to have a wife and child in the UK as dependents.

Before he was detained Taranjit had been studying TV Production at Stow College where he had made many new friends and had made documentaries on 'Climate Change' among other things. His lawyer made an application for the 'Legacy Case Resolution' process in November 2006 but since then has heard nothing.

Taranjit has no family in Afghanistan and so will not be able to depend on the social and family networks most Afghaniâs use to support themselves. As a member of a small religious minority he will also face severe problems.

Please take urgent action to help Taranjit: Go to Chater2ndDecember for bulletin/model letter