FARAD CONTINUATION SHEET IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY CRIMINAL APPELLATE JURISDICTION CRIMINAL WRIT PETITION NO.3387 OF 2009 [ V/S.] _____________________________________________________________________________________ Office Notes, Office Memoranda of : Coram, appearances, Court s orders : ’ or directions and Registrar s’ : Court s or Judge s orders ’ ’ orders : _____________________________________________________________________________________ Mr.A.M.Saraogi for petitioner Mrs.S.V.Gajre, APP CORAM : S.C. DHARMADHIKARI, J. DATED : 8th JANUARY, 2010. PC :- 1. Heard. 2. This criminal writ petition is directed against the orders in externment proceedings. The order of externment passed by competent authority directs externment of the petitioner from Mumbai and Mumbai suburban district for a period of six months from the date of the order i.e. 6th November 2009. The order was challenged in appeal and the appellate authority has while confirming the externment order reduced the period from 6 months to 3 months. After the matter was argued for some time and when it was brought to the notice of the parties that the petitioner has already been externed from 6th November 2009 and has remained out of the said city and suburban district limits till date, considering the peculiar facts of this case, both sides requested me to pass appropriate orders. 3. Having perused the materials on record and finding that in the peculiar facts of this case, when there were eight criminal cases filed against the petitioner over a period from 1992 to 2008 and he was acquitted in six cases out of them, so also, other two being one non cognisable offence and a proceeding resulting in furnishing of bond of good behaviour, interest of justice would be served if the order of externment is confined to the period of externment period already undergone by the petitioner. Thus, the period of three months directed by the appellate authority is further reduced to two months from 6th November 2009. The said order to stand modified accordingly. Petition disposed of in these terms. (S.C.Dharmadhikari, J.)