SC rejects plea: Goa-born Pakistani denied CAA relief; asked to approach HC

NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court connected Wednesday refused to entertain the plea of a Goa-born Pakistani Catholic man, who sought a absorption to the Centre to let him citizenship nether Citizenship Amendment Act, 2019 citing spiritual persecution successful Pakistan adjacent though helium arrived successful India six years aft the Jan 2014 cutoff date.Jude Mendes, who was calved successful Goa to a Pakistani nationalist successful 1987 but completed his studies astatine Karachi successful Pakistan, arrived successful India successful 2016 connected a semipermanent visa which has been extended till June this twelvemonth and adjacent got his Aadhaar paper made successful 2020. He joined an Indian pistillate successful February this year.Three days aft the Pahalgam panic onslaught connected tourists by Pak-backed terrorists, India connected April 25 cancelled each kinds of visas fixed to Pakistani nationals.

However, agelong word visas, which Mendes has, person not been revoked. Mendes' visa expires connected June 20.Advocate Raghav Awasthi told a partial moving time seat of Justices Prashant Kumar Mishra and Manmohan that "the Petitioner is calved successful India and is simply a Roman Catholic which being a number assemblage is heavy persecuted successful Pakistan. He cannot question to Pakistan to renew his passport which is expiring connected 20.06.2025 owed to the menace to his beingness and that therefore, helium ought to beryllium granted hold of his semipermanent visa.

" The petitioner said successful the lawsuit of his deportation to Pakistan, the petitioner who was calved successful India and present lawfully joined to an Indian citizen, would look imminent menace to his beingness due to the fact that of utmost spiritual persecution successful Pakistan. At contiguous helium works arsenic a cook successful Goa. But the seat said that helium would person to determination the Bombay HC for the alleviation helium is seeking. The petitioner's lawyer withdrew the plea to determination the HC. Under CAA, India had resolved to assistance citizenship to those individuals from number communities who person been persecuted successful neighbouring countries connected the crushed of religion. However, the instrumentality stipulated that they should person entered India anterior to Jan 1, 2014.