1. These are two connected petitions, being Crl. Writ Petition No. 583/97 (Surjeet Singh v. State and another) and Crl. Writ Petition No. 641/97 (Smt. Niyamti v. State and Another). The petitioners through the present petitions have taken exception to the externment orders dated April 8, 1997 and March 13, 1997 whereby the petitioners herein were directed to remove themselves beyond the limits of the National Capital Territory of Delhi for a period of two years from the date of issue of the said orders. They were further directed by the impugned orders not to enter or return to the National Capital Territory of Delhi within the aforementioned period of two years without the written permission of the competent authority.
Since common questions of law and fact are to be gone, to in both the writ petitions