1. The petitioner, Mir Abdul Qadir, has filed this petition under Section 491 (b) of the Code of Criminal Procedure seeking a direction from this Court in the nature of habeas corpus that the respondents 1 and 2, who are respectively the State of Andhra Pradesh represented by its Secretary, Home Department, and the Commissioner of Police (Registration Officer), Hyderabad, should produce the petitioner before the Court, coupled with a prayer that he be released from, what the petitioner alleges to be, unlawful custody.

2. The main allegations in the petition are that about four years ago the petitioner had filed Writ Petition No. 601 of 1961 before this Court for a writ of mandamus restraining the State of Andhra Pradesh and the Commissioner of Police, Hyderabad, from deporting him under the Foreigners Act , 1946. In that writ petition the petitioner's case was that he was born in Hyderabad on 29-5-1934, that he had left for Pakistan on 23-3-1952, when he was 171/2 years old; that he had come over to India in May 1960 on the strength of a Pakistani Passport No. 179396 dated 22-3-1954 bearing category 'C'Visa No. 30894 dated 17-3-1960 valid upto 6-8-1960; that he had applied for ex