The court granted the stay as the FRRO could not produce any explanation for justifying their notice. The division bench of Justice Swatanter Kumar and Justice J P Deodhar, while adjourning the case, directed the FRRO to file a reply by January 28.

This year on January 2, the FRRO had served the notice asking Reza, who is of Iranian origin and is currently on a year long employment visa, to leave the country in seven days.

The notice was issued after he allegedly had not submitted the registration certificate for the firm he works.

The petition by Reza stated that if the FRRO wanted the registration certificate then they should approach the firm instead of him.

Speaking to Newsline, Reza claimed that the firm is not even a company in the first place.

“I feel better now. They (FRRO) have committed a lot of blunders as my firm is not a company,” Reza said.

Petitioner’s lawyer Jamshed Mistry stated that they had applied for the company registration certificate and got the same a day after the notice was served.

Tora felt equally relieved as they are expecting their first baby any moment now. Tora also stated that she had met the officials at the FRRO but did not get any relief due to which they had to move the court stating the notice was arbitrary and illegal.

Earlier in 2007 too Reza had approached the high court for availing his employment visa following which the court passed a favorable order.