Dharamsala, August 30 – A Chinese national has been sent to prison for two months by a Himachal Pradesh court after she was found staying in India without her travel papers.
A local court here ordered on Tuesday that Kanchan Lambo be handed over to Chinese authorities at the India-China border after completing her sentence.
She was posing as a Tibetan Buddhist nun and was arrested on July 21 in the hill town of Dharamsala, which is also the abode of the Tibetan spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama.
Lhamo had earlier been deported some two years ago from Dharamsala. Lhamo entered India again along with other Tibetan refugees from Nepal without a visa and entry permit.
She had been trying to get an audience with the 17th Karmapa, another important Tibetan Buddhist leader, in Dharamsala but was arrested when police guarding him found her documents incomplete barring her passport.
The Dalai Lama and thousands of his followers fled Tibet in 1959 after a failed coup against the Chinese communist regime.
