( 1 ) THIS is an appeal on behalf of the State against the order of the Additional Sessions Judge of bijnor by which he acquitted the respondent Ashfaq Ahmad in respect of an offence under section 14 of the Foreigners Act 1946.

( 2 ) THE facts leading up to this appeal are not disputed. The respondent Ashfaq Ahmad was a pakistani national. He came to India under a passport No. 348864 dated the 7th of August 1955 issued in his favour by the Government of Pakistan. The High Commissioner for India in pakistan granted him the necessary visa which permitted him to stay in India till the 19th of january 1956. On the basis of that passport and visa he entered India on the 2nd of November 1955. The visa was extended first till the 14th of March 1956, then to the 13th of June 1956, then to the 13th of September 1956, and lastly till the 29th of October 1956. At the time of the last extension of the visa the time limit fixed for his exit from India was extended to the 1st of November 1956. Thereafter the visa was not extended. The respondent did not leave India after the expiry of his visa and even after he had got an exit endorsement extended first till the 17th of June 1957