1 2070.11-wp IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY. APPELLATE JURISDICTION. CRIMINAL WRIT PETITION NO. 2070 OF 2011 Hasan Aliso Shikalgar. ... Petitioner. V/s. The Sub-Divisional Magistrate, Karveer Division and another. ... Respondents. S.A.Ingawale for for the petitioner. A.S.Shitole, APP for the State. CORAM: B.R.GAVAI, J. DATED : 28th July 2011. P.C. : Rule. Rule is made returnable forthwith. Heard finally by consent of parties. 2. By the present petition, the petitioner challenges the order 13th April 2011 passed by the respondent No.1 externing the petitioner from Kolhapur, Sangli, Satara, Ratnagiri, Sindhudurg and Belgaon districts and the order passed by the Principal Secretary dated 30th June 2011 upholding the said order, though modifying to some extent. 3. The perusal of the order would reveal that the proposal for externment was issued on 5th April 2008. It refers to activities of the petitioner in 2006 and 2007. The order is passed on 13th April 2011. It can, thus, be seen that there is a gap of almost more than three years between the proposal and the impugned order. The provision of externment affects the 2 2070.11-wp personal liberty of the citizen. Before such a drastic action is taken, it is necessary for the respondent authorities to establish the live link between the alleged activities and the proposed action. The cases registered in the year 2006 and 2007, that too for petty offences, and the proposal of 2008, by no stretch of imagination can be said to have lively to the orders which have passed in 2011. The petition deserves to be allowed on this short ground. Rule is, therefore, made absolute in terms of prayer clause (b). (B.R.GAVAI, J.)