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4. It is submitted that a workshop was organized at Bangkok by Central India Digital Network Pvt.Limited, Bhopal from 27/12/2009 till 2/1/2010 with an intention to improve the quality of work. The applicant was interested in joining the workshop and, therefore, he applied for permission to get his passport renewed. Hence, he filed an application for grant of permission (Annexure- P/2).

5. The trial Court rejected the application only on the ground that while granting bail, no restriction on the movement of the applicant was imposed, therefore, there is no question for grant of permission. It is submitted that although though the workshop has already been held and the applicant could not attend the workshop but now in near future, a similar tour is going to be sponsored by the companies and in order to avail the facility, the applicant would require his passport. It is further submitted that passport authority may refuse to grant or renew the passport if any criminal case is pending against the holder of the passport. In order to come out of this difficulty, the holder of passport is required to obtain permission from the Court.

6. Learned counsel for the applicant drew my attention to Clause (f) of sub-section (2) of Section 6 of the Passport Act, 1967 and submitted that the passport authority may refuse to grant or renew the passport if any criminal case is pending against the holder of the passport. He further submits that due to pendency of criminal case for offences punishable under sections 147, 332 and 186 of IPC, the learned trial Court refused to issue direction to renew the passport and rejected the application by the impugned order. It is submitted that the trial Court rejected the application on the ground that while granting bail, no restriction on movement of the applicant was imposed or any condition is imposed by the trial Court while granting bail to the applicant, therefore, there is no question of granting any permission. He further submits that as and when the applicant will go out of country he will obtain prior permission from the concerned trial Court. He lastly submits that in identical circumstances another Court allowed the application and directed for renewal of passport vide order dated 22.12.2009 (Annex.P-4) in Criminal Case No.1092/2005 and submitted that learned JMFC rejected the application only on the ground that the applicant did not disclose this fact in his application that any condition has been imposed by the trial Court.