The Bombay High Court has rejected a petition challenging externment of a Nashik resident, saying the externing authority had exercised its powers within the parameters of law and hence no interference was called for in the externment proceedings.

"In view of this, we are not inclined to allow the petition," said a bench of justices Prakash Naik and Naresh Patil while upholding the externment of Pankaj Shimpi from Nashik for a year, in a judgement delivered recently.