Punjab-Haryana High Court
Vikram Bhatt vs Union Of India And Anr on 14 March, 2024
Neutral Citation No:=2024:PHHC:036635
IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA
AT CHANDIGARH
109 2024:PHHC:036635
CWP No. 5982 of 2024
Date of Decision:14.03.2024
Vikram Bhatt
....Petitioner
vs.
Union of India and another
....Respondents
CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE JAGMOHAN BANSAL
Present: Mr. Vikram Satpal Anand, Advocate
for the petitioner
Mr. Ashutosh Dhankar, Advocate
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 issue him passport.
2. The petitioner was embroiled in two FIRs. In FIR No. 117 dated 17.10.2015, under Sections 323, 325 of IPC, registered at Police Station Cantt. Ferozepur, he was acquitted vide judgment dated 01.12.2016 passed by JMIC, Ferozepur. In FIR No. 20 dated 07.03.2008, under Sections 392, 34, 120-B of IPC and Sections 25, 27, 54, 59 of the Arms Act, 1959, registered at Police Station Cantt. Ferozepur, he was convicted for the period already undergone vide judgment dated 02.05.2012 passed by JMIC, Ferozepur. The petitioner vide application dated 18.09.2023 has applied for passport, however, till date passport has not been issued.
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3. Notice of motion.
4. Mr. Ashutosh Dhankar, Advocate for Union of India, who on advance notice is present in Court, accepts notice and waives service. He 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 within six weeks, in accordance with law.
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 09.04.2024 alongwith requisite documents. On doing so, the passport authority would pass an appropriate order within six weeks from 09.04.2024.
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