The Bombay High Court on Tuesday directed the Mumbai Police to re-verify the address of Aamir Kasam Vadgama, who had approached the HC seeking directions to the Centre to issue a visa to his wife a Pakistani national. The couple got married in 2017 in Karachi but her application has not been processed till date. A division bench of Justice Abhay Oka and Justice Makarand Subhash Karnik posted the plea for further hearing next week. The direction came after Advocate Mohamedali Chunawala, told the court that the Union Ministry of Home Affairs had rejected his wife's application on the grounds that the husband's address was incomplete. Mentioning Vadgama's address, his lawyer Chunawala told the court that the family resides there and an officer should visit for verification. Accordingly, the HC directed the authority to re-visit the residence for verification. Vadgama and his family were visiting their relatives in Karachi in May 2017, when he met Rabiya. The two decided to get married. Rabiya then sought a visitor's visa to India on May 12, to be with her husband, but her application was not processed for the lack of a sponsorship letter from Vadgama. She reapplied with the letter on May 29. However, Rabiya's visa application has not been processed since, and the Vadgamas claimed they have not received any response from the authorities. After waiting for a year, Vadgama filed a petition in HC in September 2018. He sought directions to the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) to issue a visitor visa to Rabiya, and if it could not be issued, to assign a reason thereof. He argued that that being with his wife was Vadgama's constitutional right. There is no law that restricts an Indian resident from marrying a Pakistani national. CASE HISTORY

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