Mehmood Ansari v. Union of India and 2 Others

Court No. - 32 Case :- WRIT - C No. - 42666 of 2023 Petitioner :- Mehmood Ansari Respondent :- Union Of India And 2 Others Counsel for Petitioner :- Usha Srivastava,Arjit Srivastava,Vinod Kumar Srivastava Counsel for Respondent :- A.S.G.I.,Surendra Nath Chauhan Hon'ble Salil Kumar Rai,J. Hon'ble Syed Aftab Husain Rizvi,J. Heard the counsel for the petitioner and Sri Surendra Nath Chauhan, the counsel for Union of India. The present petition has been filed praying for the following relief : - "(i) Issue a writ, order or direction in the nature of mandamus directing the respondent no.3 to issue renewed passport to the petitioner (passport no.K3423215) within a time bound period." It appears from the records annexed with the writ petition that no orders are being passed on the application of the petitioner because of the pendency of Case No. 13527 of 2020 in Case Crime No. 192 of 2018 under Sections 420, 147, 148, 406, 504, 506 of the Indian Penal Code. In view of the aforesaid, there is no illegality in the act of the passport department in not issuing the passport of the petitioner under clause (f) of sub-section (2) of Section 6 of the Passports Act, 1967. However, in view of the office memorandum dated 10th October, 2019, No.VI/401/1/5/2019 which provides that the persons against whom criminal cases are pending may be exempted from the operation of Section 6 (2) (f) of the Act, 1967, in case, they produce orders from the court concerned permitting them to depart from India subject to the conditions enumerated in GSR 570 (E) dated 25.08.1993. The petitioner may take steps for issuance of his passport in accordance with the conditions prescribed in the office memorandum dated 10th October, 2019 and in case, the petitioner fulfills the requirement prescribed in the said office memorandum, the concerned authority shall consider the case of the petitioner for issuance of his passport. With the aforesaid observation, the writ petition is disposed of. Order Date :- 11.12.2023 C. MANI High Court of Judicature at Allahabad