4.1. The learned counsel appearing for the petitioners would further submit the cases of similarly placed accused came up before the Madurai Bench of this Court in Crl.O.P.Nos.5769, 6018 & 6103 of 2020 and this Court had issued a direction that if the petitioners shall execute appropriate affidavits expressing their remorse for having violated the Visa conditions, the proceedings against them shall be concluded by filing final reports and the petitioners were also directed to coordinate with the respective embassy and arrange for their return to their respective nations and the Government Tamil Nadu and the Government of India will play the facilitating role. He would further submit that similar matters relating to Foreign Nationals registered in various other States came before the Hon'ble Supreme Court on 06.08.2020 and the Hon'ble Supreme Court had taken into consideration the submission made by the learned Solicitor General that if the petitioners /accused tender apology as envisaged in the orders in Crl.O.P.Nos.5769, 6018 & 6103 of 2020, passed by the Hon'ble Madras High Court in the concerned Criminal cases, they can be permitted to leave India, despite pendency of the cases but subject to such orders that may be passed by the concerned Courts. Further, the Hon'ble Supreme Court had also taken into consideration the option plea of bargaining and directed that all the related cases in New Delhi to be clubbed together with a direction to dispose of within a period of eight weeks from 06.08.2020. He would submit that similarly placed accused who are citizens of France, Belgium and Comoros, were also charge sheeted in C.C.No.154 of 2020, on the file of the learned Judicial Magistrate No.I, Mayiladuthurai, in which, the accused pleaded guilty and they were convicted and sentenced to the period already undergone and were fined to pay an amount of https://hcservices.ecourts.gov.in/hcservices/ Rs.3,500/-. The accused have paid the fine and the period of sentence
