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In the interest of fairness you’d think that would be a paper fix so he could come back — but there are complications, his new family, a wife and son.

“Of course, he doesn’t want to leave them in India and the government says not only can he not bring them, they have also refused to process his application to return to the country for 14 months,” Gratl said.

“The Government of Canada is doing all sorts of inappropriate things like charging them application fees to return to the country.”

The case is a perfect example of how the system fights tooth and nail to prevent victims from being compensated for institutional injustice.

DNA test results in 2006 cleared Dhillon, but they were not disclosed before his deportation to Punjab in October 2008 or for years afterwards.

Dhillon’s first wife divorced him and he has not seen his daughter, Harleen, 12, since he was deported when she was four years old.

In September 2011, a special prosecutor was appointed but Dhillon wasn’t informed of the miscarriage of justice until February 2013.

“I was so happy and told everybody in my village,” he says in an affidavit. “I wanted to come back to Canada right away.”

The DNA evidence linked two other men to the assault, but more than that, neither they nor Dhillon fathered the child born as a result of the assault, which also undercut the victim’s claim to be a lesbian who had not had sex with any other man.

“It’s deeply troubling,” Gratl said. “The attitude of the minister of citizenship, immigration (and refugees, John McCallum) is absolutely ethically oblivious that the man was wrongly convicted and wrongly deported. You would think that someone would sign a little note quickly to make sure in one way shape or form he was brought back to Canada.”