New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Wednesday refused to entertain the petition of a Pakistani Catholic person -born Pakistani Catholic person, seeking a direction to the Center, which, citing religious harassment in Pakistan to allow it to allow him to allow citizenship under the Citizenship Amendment Act, 2019, even though he reached India six years after the cutoff date of January 2014.Jude Mendes, who was born in a Pakistani citizen in Goa in 1987, but completed his studies in Karachi, Pakistan, arrived in India on a long -term visa in 2016, which was extended by June this year and even received his Aadhaar card in 2020. She married an Indian woman in February this year.Three days after the Pahalgam terror attack on tourists by Pak-supported terrorists on 25 April, all types of visas given to Pakistani citizens were canceled. However, long -term visas, which are near Mendes, have not been canceled. Mendes’s visa ends on June 20.Advocate Raghav Awasthi told a partial working day bench of Justice Prashant Kumar Mishra and Manmohan that “The petitioner is born in India and is a Roman Catholic that is a minority community heavily persecuted in Pakistan. Long -term visa.” The petitioner said in Pakistan’s position in Pakistan, who was born in India, now the petitioner was born in India and now the petitioner was married in Pakistan, now the petitioner was married in Pakistan and now in Pakistan. The extreme religious harassment will face imminent threat to your life due to the religious harassment. Currently he works as a chef in Goa. But the bench said that he would have to transfer Bombay HC for the relief he is seeking. The petitioner’s counsel withdrew the petition to transfer HC. Under the CAA, India had resolved to provide citizenship to those individuals of minority communities who have been persecuted in neighboring countries on the basis of religion. However, the law said that they should have entered India before 1 January 2014.
