IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY CRIMINAL APPELLATE JURISDICTION CRIMINAL WRIT PETITION NO. 22 OF 2009 Chandrakant Mahadeo Mhatre ...Petitioner Versus The Secretary, Home Department, & Anr. ... Respondents. Mr. Nishigandh N. Patil for the Petitioner Mrs. U.V. Kejariwal, Additional Public Prosecutor, for the State. CORAM: B ILAL NAZKI and A.R. JOSHI, JJ. DATE: MARCH 18, 2009 P.C.:- The petitioner was released on parole for 30 days on 17th October, 2008. He did not surrender in time. He filed an appeal before the Secretary, Home Department, seeking extension. This petition has been filed, seeking a direction to be given to the Secretary to decide his appeal. We have not been shown any rule by which the Secretary, Home Department, could have heard an appeal. In any case, the petitioner has surrendered after overstaying, and this petition has become infructuous. It is dismissed as such. BILAL NAZKI, J. A.R. JOSHI, J.