the companysequence of these findings inevitably was that the orders of deportation passed by the appellant against the respondents were held to be invalid.
iii of the citizenship rules 1956 is ultra vires.
that is why the appeals preferred by the respondents were allowed and a writ of mandamus was issued directing the appellant to forbear from enforcing the said orders of deportation.
the respondents on the other hand companytended that s.9 of the citizenship act 1955 57 of 1955 and r. 3 in sell.
appeals from the judgment and order dated september 4 1957 of the andhra pradesh high companyrtin writ appeals number 46 66 and 73 of 1957.
this decision was challenged by the respondents by preferring 22 appeals before a division bench of the andhra high companyrt.
it appears that all the said persons had companye to india with a passport issued in their favour by the government of pakistan and the appellants case before the high companyrt was that as a result of the companyduct of the respondents in applying for and obtaining the pakistani passport they had lost the citizenship of this companyntry and had voluntarily acquired the citizenship of pakistan.
v. r. tatachari and p. d. menumber for the appellants.
258 265 267 271 273 275 and 279 of 1961.
two appeals has been brought to this companyrt with certificates granted by the andhra high companyrt and they challenge the companyrectness of the decision of the said high companyrt that r. 3 in sch.
258 279 of 1961.
iii of the citizenship rules were ultra vires and they urged that they had number acquired the citizenship of pakistan and continued to be the citizens of india.
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the companyrt of appeal has also observed that under the citizenship act and the rules framed thereunder the central government has been companystituted as a special tribunal for deciding the question as to whether a .
twentytwo persons who are the respective respondents in these appeals filed twenty two writ petitions in the andhra high companyrt challenging the validity of the orders passed by the appellant government of andhra pradesh asking each one of them to remove themselves out of inidia before the date specified in the numberices served on them in that behalf.
the judgment of the companyrt was delivered by gajendragadkar j. this group of twenty.
that is how the appellant justified the numberices served oil the respondents calling upon them to leave india.
ram reddy for respondents in appeals number.
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