PANJIM, Jan. 28 -- Team Herald

A division bench of the High Court of Bombay at Goa, comprising Justice M S Karnik and Justice Valmiki Menezes, on Tuesday directed the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) to decide within four weeks on a fresh application from Adv Aires Rodrigues for an Overseas Citizen of India (OCI) card.

In its order, the Court instructed Adv Rodrigues to submit a new online OCI application by January 30. It also directed the officer in charge at the Embassy of India in Lisbon to call Adv Rodrigues on February 5 at 11:30 am to complete all

the formalities.

The Court noted that the MHA had confirmed that there were no criminal proceedings pending against Adv Rodrigues in any court. Senior advocate A F Diniz, representing A...