Petitioner P Yousuf, who's at current lodged in Dumdum Central Correctional Dwelling, prayed for a course by the court docket to the authorities to repatriate him to Pakistan.
Justice Amrita Sinha directed the lawyer representing the Union of India to acquire correct directions on this matter as to the subsequent plan of action with regard to Yousuf.
“Whether or not the petitioner may be launched or is he required to bear additional detention shall be particularly intimated by the authority,” the court docket directed on Wednesday.
The court docket famous the precarious place of Yousuf, the place he has been convicted right here as a overseas nationwide whereas Pakistan is refusing to just accept him as its citizen.
The court docket directed that the matter will come up for listening to once more on September 17.His counsel submitted earlier than the court docket that Yousuf, who was arrested in 2012 after illegally crossing into India from Bangladesh by means of the border in West Bengal's North 24 Parganas district, was convicted on a plea of guilt on April 4, 2013 and was sentenced to imprisonment for 650 days.Regardless of having served his sentence lengthy again, he has not been repatriated and continues to languish at Dumdum Central Jail right here, the lawyer acknowledged.
The West Bengal authorities's lawyer submitted earlier than the court docket a report by the officer in cost, directorate of correctional providers.
He acknowledged that in response to the report, Pakistan isn't accepting Yousuf as its citizen. He had been given consular entry and brought to the Pakistan Excessive Fee in Delhi twice.
The state's lawyer mentioned that whereas two co-accused males have been accepted by Pakistan as its nationals, Yousuf was not accepted as its citizen by the neighbouring nation.
He acknowledged that the petitioner, following this, had claimed earlier than one other bench of the excessive court docket that he's an Indian citizen and had additionally annexed sale deeds of property in Kerala.
The West Bengal authorities's lawyer submitted earlier than the court docket {that a} report by the Kerala authorities acknowledged that Yousuf had studied until class 7 in a Kannur faculty and thereafter went to Pakistan alongside together with his father Mir Mohammed.
The counsel representing the central authorities submitted that there is no such thing as a doubt that Yousuf is a overseas nationwide.
Justice Sinha advised the Centre's counsel to take directions from the federal government as to what's to be performed with Yousuf.
The court docket granted go away to the petitioner to implead the Ministry of Dwelling Affairs and Foreigners Regional Registration Workplace (FRRO) within the matter.
