drp {1} Cri.W.P.No.373/2003 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE OF BOMBAY BENCH AT AURANGABAD CRIMINAL WRIT PETITION NO.373 OF 2003 Gajanan Pundlik Malpure PETITIONER Age-33 years, Occ-Business/ Social Worker R/o 17, Navi Peth, Jalgaon VERSUS 1. The Union of India RESPONDENTS Through Department of Home Ministry New Delhi 2. State of Maharashtra, Through -Secretary, Department of Home Mantralaya, Mumbai 3. District Magistrate, and Collector, Jalgaon 4. District Superintendent of Police, Jalgoan, Dist-Jalgaon 5. Inspector of Police, City Police Station, Jalgaon 6. The Tahsildar, Jalgaon, Dist-Jalgaon ....... Mr.Vijay B.Patil, Advocate for the petitioner Mr. Alok Sharma, Assistant Solicitor General, for respondent No.1 Mr. K.G.Patil, AGP for respondents State ....... [CORAM : P.V.HARDAS, AND A.V.POTDAR, J.J.] drp {2} Cri.W.P.No.373/2003 DATE : 17th February 2011 ORAL JUDGMENT (PER P.V.HARDAS. J.): 1. This is a petition in public interest, by which the petitioner has prayed for several reliefs including directing the respondents to submit a report in respect of 736 Pakistani citizens, found in Jalgaon district and also prays for issuance of a writ to the respondents directing them to initiate an inquiry in respect of the Non Indian Citizens i.e. Pakistani Citizens, who are residing illegally in Jalgaon district. The petitioner has also prayed for initiating inquiry through Central Bureau of Investigation or Crime Investigation Department, in respect of residence of such persons. 2. We accordingly issue rule and with the consent of the learned counsel for the parties, heard the petition finally. 3. The Division Bench, by its detailed order passed on 9th March 2010, found that in all 253 persons were residing in Jalgaon district, who were not having Indian Nationality. The Court also came to the conclusion that after the decision of the cases of some of them, only cases of 247 persons remained to be decided. These persons had been residing in Jalgaon district on account of Long Term Visa, granted to them. Undisputedly, the aforesaid persons were not Indian Citizens, but had applied for grant of Indian citizenship. The aforesaid applications have not been decided by the respondents, so far. Since their applications have not been drp {3} Cri.W.P.No.373/2003 decided, their stay has been extended in the State, from time to time. 4. Mr.Alok Sharma, learned Assistant Solicitor General for Union of India, states on instructions that the pending applications of those persons, who have applied for grant of Indian citizenship, and who are presently residing in Jalgaon and who number about 247, would be decided within one year from today and the decision thereon would be communicated to them. The aforesaid statement is made on the basis of instructions, which have been made available to the learned Assistant Solicitor General for Union of India. We accept the aforesaid statement as an undertaking to the Court. In the light of the aforesaid statement, which we have accepted as an undertaking to the Court, according to us, the reliefs, which the petitioner has prayed for in this petition, eventually stand granted to the petitioner. 5. We accordingly make rule absolute in the terms of the statement made by Mr.Alok Sharma, learned Assistant Solicitor General for Union of India. Writ petition is accordingly stands partly allowed to the extent indicated above, with no order as to costs. [A.V.POTDAR, J.] [P.V.HARDAS, J.] drp/A11/cwp373-03