Supreme Court · 1972 INSC 150 · Decided 18 July 1972
State of Assam v. Jilkadar Ali
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1972 INSC 150 · [1973] 1 S.C.R. 685
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 176/1969
- Decided
- 18 July 1972
- Bench
- J.M. SHELAT, HANS RAJ KHANNA (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- Constitution Article 5
Headnote
685 ForeignerJf Act 1946--Stction 14 read with clause 7 <>/ the Foreigners' Order 1948-Wheth~r a person who opted for service in Pakistan afllr partition and leaving India to settle in Pakistan permanent(y will be con­ sidered as a "foreigner'", under the Foreigners' Act 1946. constable and on partition, he opted for service in Pakistan. The respondent went to the then East Pakistan and joined Pakistan Government 11ervice as a peon. He entered India in 1953 on the strength of a Pakistani passport but returned to Pakistan in 1954. Again in 1955, he obtained an Indian
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