NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Tuesday sought the Centre's response to a petition filed by mother of an Indian student in UK seeking evacuation of her ward and around 380 similarly placed students, who she said were facing hardship as UK too has enforced complete lockdown.A three-judge SC bench asked solicitor general Tushar Mehta to respond to the petition after her counsel Sunil Fernandes said that Indian government could utilise the chartered flights, requisitioned by UK government to ferry their nationals from India, on their way back.The advocate mother, Madhurima Mridul, in her PIL filed through lawyer Astha Sharma , said she has come to know that UK and German governments have approached India to facilitate return of their nationals stranded in India, following the Covid-19 lockdown and travel restrictions."The reports in the media further suggest that various flights will be operated in the near future, from Mumbai and New Delhi, and the petitioner seeks a direction from the SC to the Union government to ensure that the same flights ferrying British nationals from India to UK be used to evacuate Indian students stuck in UK, and who are ready and willing to travel home," she said.While making the request for evacuation of her child and similarly situated students fromUK, she accused India as "probably the only country that has imposed an embargo on return of its own citizens, and where as other countries are making all possible efforts to repatriate their citizens stranded in various countries.""India with its travel bans has made it impossible for its own citizens to come back home. It is also pertinent to note that countries with far greater incidences of mortality like China, Spain , Italy, Iran , South Korea and United States too have not imposed any embargo on return of their nationals from foreign shores," Mridul claimed.She said the government could have ordered mandatory quarantine period for those returning from abroad and imposed reasonable restrictions on their movements while subjecting them to undergo medical tests as per the demands of the Covid-protocol. "But passing blanket order preventing an Indian citizen from returning to his homeland violated constitutional rights guaranteed under Articles 14 and 21," she said.She said around 380 students from India, stranded in UK, have started a data chain with their passport details to create a collective voice to request Indian Government for their evacuation, but to no avail. "As most universities in the UK are shut down, there is no provision for food in cafeteria, leaving the students to fend for themselves during the present crisis. Despite all universities issuing advisories to students to return back to their countries, Indian are not able to come back because of the complete shut down of international flights," she said.