Thread by @barandbench

Ministry of Home Affairs inform Justice AM Khanwilkar led SC bench that the 8 foreign #Tablighi nationals from Bihar who were discharged of all cases now face a revision petition filed against the trial court order. ASG KM Nataraj states that they can travel back on undertaking

Sr Adv Chander Uday Singh: This delay is causing anguish to the foreigners and that the process should be expedited so that they can travel back to their home countries

SC: We will pass orders when a representation seeking request for travel back is received and that it shall be decided preferably within 4 days, and not later than one week.

Asks ASG: Who is the nodal officer who will deal with such representations?

#SupremCourt

Senior Adv Dr Menaka Guruswamy: Please pass an order or directions for expeditious trial of matters in Tablighi Jamaat cases in Bihar.

Justice Khanwilkar: we need to wait for the orders of the HC

@MenakaGuruswamy

Adv for State of Bihar: Patna HC has passed an order on October 14 to consolidate the matters and to transfer the trials to Patna.

SC: We will wait for the orders

ASG Nataraj: Joy Thirkey, Deputy Commissioner of Police, Delhi, will be the nodal officer for dealing with the representations of foreign nationals in and look at the cases seeking travel back to their native countries.

@CPDelhi
#tablighijamaat

SC dictates orders:

The eight persons, who have been discharged by the trial court, are at liberty to file application before the trial court and to give undertaking for travel back to their home country. Further ubject to the conditions of court, the Union to allow such travel

SC : the foreign members may submit representations to the nodal officer suggested by the ASG for travel back to native country, which shall be decided preferably in 4 days, not later than one week.

#tablighijamaat
#supremecourt