Hyderabad, June 12 -- The Supreme Court on Wednesday, June 11, declined to hear the plea of a Goa-born Pakistani national seeking citizenship under the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA), fearing religious persecution in Pakistan.

A bench consisting of Justice Prashant Kumar Mishra and Justice Manmohan directed the applicant, Jude Mendes, to approach the Bombay High Court for appropriate measures.

Mendes, a Catholic who works as a chef in Goa, was born to a Pakistani national in 1987 in India. As a child, he travelled to the neighbouring country and completed his studies in Karachi.

In 2016, Mendes received his visa upon arrival in India, two years after the CAA's cutoff of January 1, 2014. Four years later, he married an Indian woman and...