passport; (c)
under the Indian Passport Act, re-entering India without a
passport is penalized. The deprivation of personal liberty
in the refusal ... denied a passport be,cause, factually, a passport is a
necessary condition for travel abroad and the Government, by
withholding the passport, can effectively deprive
grant them passports.
35. The respondents contend that, in law, no passport is necessary for leaving the country and that therefore the refusal of passports ... that the executive is preventing them from exercising that right by refusing passports, all we can do is to direct the executive to forbear from
section 6(2)(f) of the Passports
Act, 1967 which does empower the passport authority to
refuse the issuance of a passport on the ground ... shall refuse'. In the context in
which it is used, the refusal to issue passport on the
grounds mentioned in that sub-section
valid passport. It is therefore impossible for him to leave India without a valid passport. Secondly it is alleged that the passport is necessary ... issued or on what grounds it could be refused. The grant or refusal of a passport, therefore, is a matter within the discretion
that on receipt of the application the passport authority may issue the passport or travel document or refuse to issue the passport or travel document ... that the petitioner's application for issuance of passport and passport facility was refused solely on the ground that the petitioner's case
passport to the Regional passport an the Officer on demand made by the police and the Regional passport officer detained the passport pending order from ... shelat held that the Regional Passport officer was not entitled to detain the passport and directed hat the passport be returned to the petitioner. After
section 6(2)(f) of the Passports
Act, 1967 which does empower the passport authority to
refuse the issuance of a passport on the ground ... passport authority shall
act on the basis of such report for the purpose of issuing
passport. The passport may not be refused solely
Refusal of passports, travel documents, etc.-
(1) Subject to the other provisions of this Act, the passport authority shall refuse to make an endorsement ... provisions of the Passports Act, 1967 that it lays down the circumstances under which a passport may be issued or refused or cancelled or impounded
which Section 10(3)(c) of the Passport Act, 1967 authorises the passport authority to impound a passport "in the interests of the general ... does not provide for a hearing to the holder of the passport before the passport is impounded;
(3) Section 10(3)(c) is violative of Article
Refusal of passport, travel documents etc. (1)
Subject to the other provisions of this Act, the passport
authority shall refuse to make an endorsement ... passport
yet despite acquitted in a criminal case for reason of
pendency of an appeal there against, the issue of
passport can be refused
