Vihwanath Ohri Alias Bunty vs Union Of India And Others

Citation : 2024 Latest Caselaw 8097 P&H
Judgement Date : 18 April, 2024

Punjab-Haryana High Court

Vihwanath Ohri Alias Bunty vs Union Of India And Others on 18 April, 2024

                                      Neutral Citation No:=2024:PHHC:051501




       IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA
                            AT CHANDIGARH

101                                   2024:PHHC:051501
                                      CWP No. 7082 of 2024
                                      Date of Decision:18.04.2024

VISHWANATH OHRI ALIAS BUNTY


                                                    ....Petitioner

                                      vs.

UNION OF INDIA AND OTHERS


                                                    ....Respondents

CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE JAGMOHAN BANSAL


Present:    Mr. Rituraj Singh, Advocate
            for the petitioner

            Ms. Amrita Singh, Central Govt. Counsel
            for the Union of India

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JAGMOHAN BANSAL, J. (ORAL)

1. The petitioner through instant petition under Articles 226/227 of the Constitution of India is seeking direction to respondents to re-issue him passport.

2. The petitioner was issued passport on 03.06.2013 which was valid upto 02.06.2023. He was embroiled in FIR No. 187 dated 31.07.2021, under Sections 323, 324, 325, 427, 452, 148, 149 of IPC (offence under Section 326 IPC added later on read with Section 30/54/59 of the Arms Act, 1989), registered at Police Station Model Town, Hoshiarpur. Till date, challan has not been presented.

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3. Counsel for the petitioner states that case of the petitioner is squarely covered by judgment of this Court in Mohan Lal @ Mohna vs. Union of India and others 2023 SCC Online P&H 1391.

4. Ms. Amrita Singh, Central Government Counsel for Union of India submits that petitioner may be directed to appear before the passport authority alongwith requisite documents and the passport authority, thereafter, would pass an appropriate order after considering the afore-stated judgment within six weeks.

5. Learned counsel for the petitioner agrees to the aforesaid arrangement.

6. In the wake of statement of both sides, the petition stands disposed of with a direction to petitioner to appear before the passport authority on 13.05.2024 alongwith requisite documents. On doing so, the passport authority would pass an appropriate order within six weeks from 13.05.2024.

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