Supreme Court of India

Fida Hussain v. State of Uttar Pradesh

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Reported as [1962] 1 S.C.R. 776
Bench Bhuvneshwar Prasad Sinha J.
Decided 5 April 1961

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What the Court ordered

In the result we allow the appeal and set aside the conviction of the appellant and sentence passed on him.

Judgment, page 3

From the headnote

Foreigner-Pakistani entering India in r953-Whether a foreigner-Foreigners Act, r946 (Jr of r946), s. z (a), The appellant was born in India before the partition. He left for Pakistan and returned lo India in 1953 on a Pakistani passport and Intlian visa. He did not return to Pakistan before the expiry of the period for which he was permitted to stay in India under the visa. He was convicted for a breach of para­ graph 7 of the Foreigners Order, 1948, which required every "foreigner" entering India to depart from India before the expiry of the period during which he was authorised to remain in

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