<p>A foreign national associated with Russian painter and philosopher Nicholas Roerich’s multi-crore estate near Kullu town in Himachal Pradesh has been summoned to answer charges of violating visa rules, a police official said Monday.<br /><br /></p>.<p>Alena Adamkova, associated with the International Roerich Memorial Trust (IRMT) for almost a decade and curator-cum-executive director of the Roerich Museum, is in India on an employment visa.<br /><br />“This (Monday) evening a notice was served on her to appear in FRO (foreigner registration office) Tuesday morning,” Kullu’s Superintendent of Police Ashok Kumar told IANS.<br />Government officials said Adamkova was re-issued a visa with a rider that she could not visit Kullu. But she arrived there Feb 21.<br /><br />“We have given an opportunity to hear her. Any further action, if any, will be decided after that,” Kumar added.<br /><br />The work visa of Adamkova was extended despite objections from the trust’s Indian members, who said she was allegedly involved in financial irregularities.<br /><br />“The (Indian) trustees, who are her employers, were not in favour of granting work visa again to her. Chief Secretary Rajwant Sandhu, who is also a member of the trust, wrote to the foreign secretary not to renew Admakova’s work visa that expired in January,” a trustee said.<br /><br />“But before the secretary took note of it, Adamkova got it for a year,” the trustee said.<br />On reaching Kullu, she visited FRO but authorities there refused to register her name owing to violations in visa norms.<br /><br />The trust was founded by Roerich’s daughter-in-law, the late film actress Devika Rani. <br /><br />Registered in April 1993, the 13-member trust also has Russian Ambassador to India Alexander M. Kadakin as a trustee, while Chief Minister Prem Kumar Dhumal is the ex-officio president.</p>
<p>A foreign national associated with Russian painter and philosopher Nicholas Roerich’s multi-crore estate near Kullu town in Himachal Pradesh has been summoned to answer charges of violating visa rules, a police official said Monday.<br /><br /></p>.<p>Alena Adamkova, associated with the International Roerich Memorial Trust (IRMT) for almost a decade and curator-cum-executive director of the Roerich Museum, is in India on an employment visa.<br /><br />“This (Monday) evening a notice was served on her to appear in FRO (foreigner registration office) Tuesday morning,” Kullu’s Superintendent of Police Ashok Kumar told IANS.<br />Government officials said Adamkova was re-issued a visa with a rider that she could not visit Kullu. But she arrived there Feb 21.<br /><br />“We have given an opportunity to hear her. Any further action, if any, will be decided after that,” Kumar added.<br /><br />The work visa of Adamkova was extended despite objections from the trust’s Indian members, who said she was allegedly involved in financial irregularities.<br /><br />“The (Indian) trustees, who are her employers, were not in favour of granting work visa again to her. Chief Secretary Rajwant Sandhu, who is also a member of the trust, wrote to the foreign secretary not to renew Admakova’s work visa that expired in January,” a trustee said.<br /><br />“But before the secretary took note of it, Adamkova got it for a year,” the trustee said.<br />On reaching Kullu, she visited FRO but authorities there refused to register her name owing to violations in visa norms.<br /><br />The trust was founded by Roerich’s daughter-in-law, the late film actress Devika Rani. <br /><br />Registered in April 1993, the 13-member trust also has Russian Ambassador to India Alexander M. Kadakin as a trustee, while Chief Minister Prem Kumar Dhumal is the ex-officio president.</p>