This is an appeal, by special leave, against the acquittal of the appellant, from a charge framed on 21 9 1967 as follows: "That you on or about the 31st day of March 1967 at about 9.30 p.m. were found in State Transport Corporation Workshop at Naroda in Ahmedabad, and you are a foreigner and you had come from Pakistan and you had been permitted to stay in India till 20th September, 1958, by Assistant Secretary to the Government of Bombay and did not depart from India before expiring of that permit issued to you by No. 19904 dated 6 12 1967 before the date 20th September 1958 and remained in India and thereby you contravened the previsions of clause 7(iii) of Foreigners Order 1948 and thereby committed an offence punishab le under Section 14 of and within my cognizance".