MP 1 WP1585_11 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY CRIMINAL APPELLATE JURISDICTION CRIMINAL WRIT PETITION NO. 1585 OF 2011 Shakti Vilas Ghadge ... Petitioner Versus The District Superintendent, Satara and another ... Respondents WITH CRIMINAL WRIT PETITION NO. 1586 OF 2011 Kiran Vilas Ghadge ... Petitioner Versus The District Superintendent, Satara and another ... Respondents WITH CRIMINAL WRIT PETITION NO. 1587 OF 2011 Lakhan Namdeo Ghadge ... Petitioner Versus The District Superintendent, Satara and another ... Respondents Mr. Mahindra Deshmukh, Advocate for the Petitioner. Mr. Y. M. Nakhwa, APP for the State in WP 1585 of 2011. Mrs. M. R. Tidke, APP for the State in WP 1586 of 2011. Ms Jhaveri, APP for the State in WP 1587 of 2011. CORAM : B. R. GAVAI, J. TUESDAY, JUNE 28, 2011 P. C. : Rule. Rule made returnable forthwith. Heard by consent. 2. The petitions impugn the order dated 9th December 2010 thereby externing the petitioners from Satara and Sangli Districts for a period of six months and the order dated 22nd March 2011 passed by the Appellate Authority dismissing the appeals. MP 2 WP1585_11 3. The learned APP submits that since the period of externment is already over, nothing survives in the petitions. Be that it may, this Court vide order dated 6th May 2011 in Criminal Writ Petition No. 1042 of 2011 has allowed the petition, finding that the externment order against one Gopi V. Ghadge was not sustainable in law inasmuch as the case relied on by the respondent pertains to the family dispute. Vide the said order, this Court has quashed and set aside the order of externment as also the appellate order. The Superintendent of Police, Satara vide his order dated 9th December 2010 externed four persons including Gopi. In the said order, petitioners' names viz. Shakti, Kiran and Lakhan appear at serial Nos. 4, 1 and 2 respectively. In that view of the matter, petitions deserve to be allowed for the reasons stated by this Court in its order dated 6th May 2011 in Criminal Writ Petition No. 1042 of 2011. 4, Rule is, therefore, made absolute in terms of prayer clause (b). (B. R. GAVAI, J)