Overview
- The single‑judge bench of Justice Madhav J. Jamdar on Thursday set aside the December 3, 2025 externment order and the March 27, 2026 appellate confirmation, restoring Saeed Ahmad Abdul Wahid Chaudhary’s right to enter Mumbai and its suburbs.
- The ruling found no material showing Chaudhary’s actions caused or were likely to cause alarm, danger, or harm to people or property, and held that allegations under Section 188 IPC could not justify the extraordinary step of externment.
- Justice Jamdar described the police action as vitiated and mala fide, sharply questioning whether citizens were being made “slaves of the government” and reminding officers that they are public servants answerable to the law.
- Chaudhary, who had been living outside Mumbai for about seven months after the order, returned home after the judgment and said the decision removed a measure that had impeded his political work and personal life.
- The judgment reiterates that externment is an exceptional preventive power and reinforces precedents limiting its use to genuine threats; supporters hailed the decision and the state’s next move, such as an appeal, has not been reported.