1 2025:CGHC:15812 NAFR HIGH COURT OF CHHATTISGARH AT BILASPUR CRMP No. 505 of 2025 1 - Pradeep Soni S/o Shri Durga Prasad Soni, Aged About 33 Years, R/o Paraghat, Police Station- Masturi, District- Bilaspur ( C.G. ). ... Petitioner versus 1 - State of Chhattisgarh Through The District- Magistrate Bilaspur, District- Bilaspur (C.G. ). 2 - The Additional Chief Secretary, Government of Chhattisgarh, Home Department, Mahanadi Bhawan, Nawa Raipur, Atal Nagar, District- Raipur ( C.G. ). ... Respondents For Petitioner : Mr. Goutam Khetrapal, Advocate. For Respondent(s) : Ms. Laxmeen Kashyap, Panel Lawyer Hon'ble Shri Justice Ravindra Kumar Agrawal, J. Order on Board 03-04-2025 1. Present CRMP has been filed by the petitioner challenging the order dated 22-01-2025 passed by respondent No.2 in Appeal Case No.F-4-266-Grih-C/2024 Registration No.3994/24 whereby the application for grant of stay of the effect and operation of the order dated 03-12-2024 is rejected. 2. Brief facts of the case are that on 03-12-2024 an externment order has been passed against the petitioner by the District Magistrate Bilaspur in Criminal Case No.37/2023 by invoking the provisions under Section 5(a) and (b) of the Chhattisgarh Rajya Suraksha Adhiniyam, 1990 (in short, the Adhiniyam, 1990’) considering the criminal antecedents of the petitioner. Digitally signed by MOHAMMAD AADIL KHAN 2 3. The petitioner has filed an appeal under Section 9 of the Adhiniyam, 1990 before the State Government on 19-12-2024, in the said appeal the application for stay of the effect and operation of the impugned order dated 03-12-2024 was also filed by the petitioner, but the same has been rejected by respondent No.2 vide order dated 22-01-2025 which is under challenge in the present petition. 4. Learned counsel for the petitioner would submit that the purpose of filing of this petition would be subserved if a direction is given to the appellate authority to decide the appeal filed by the petitioner within stipulated time as the same is pending since 19-12-2024. 5. The submission made by learned counsel for the petitioner is not opposed by the learned State counsel. 6. Considering the submission made by learned counsel for the parties, further considering that the externment order has been passed on 03-12-2024 by the District Magistrate Bilaspur against the petitioner and on 19-12-2024 the petitioner has filed the appeal before the State Government which is pending till date, the respondent No.2 is directed to decide the appeal on its own merits expeditiously preferably within three weeks from production of certified copy of this order. 7. With this observation, the petition is disposed of. Sd/- (Ravindra Kumar Agrawal) Judge Aadil