Section 6 of the Passport
Act, 1967 contains the ground for refusal of passport and sub-
section (2)(f) thereof which has been attracted ... Refusal of passports, travel documents
etc.-(1) ************
(2) Subject to the other provisions of this Act,
the passport authority shall refuse to issue a passport
retire from service. By informing the said information, the Regional Passport Officer impliedly refuses to take up the application of the petitioner to re-issue ... types of criminal cases which would automatically disentitle an applicant to refuse a passport. Each case depends on its own merits. The passport authority therefore
considering Section 6(2)(f) of the Passport Act had held that the passport
authority cannot refuse renewal of the passport on the ground ... directed the passport authority to
renew the passport.
6. The issue and renewal of passports is regulated by the
Passport Act, 1967 . Section
Information Technology Act, 2000 and subsequently, seized the
passports of the petitioners while arresting them and produced the same before the
learned Judicial Magistrate ... after enquiry, dismissed the petitions and refused to return the passports.
Challenging the said orders of dismissal, the petitioners have filed the present
revisions before
