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
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
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
April, 1996 wherein the passport authority intimated to the petitioner that passport could not be issued to him as the passport authority has received information ... passport, then the passport shall be issued for the period of travel abroad specified in the order.
(b) any passport issued in terms
country where passports are not required is nevertheless advised to carry a passport, except in travel to Canada or Mexico. The passport may later save ... foreign countries should
not be the bearer of an American passport.
Passports are refused only on the basis of
very clear and definite reports from
valid reasons, these facilities were refused to him. The petitioner preferred an appeal from this refusal to the Chief Passport Officer praying for recommendation ... passport to the petitioner on his application. The passport is really issued at the pleasure of the President of India and refusal to grant
procedure for obtaining
passports and travel documents and clearly defined the
grounds on which passports or travel documents or
endorsements on passports or travel documents ... made provisions for refusal of passports,
endorsements, revocation of passports etc.
After the enactment of the Passports Act , foreign travel has
been mainly governed
Articles 14 , 19(1) (a) (b) &
21-- Grounds for refusing to grant passport--Whether the
power to impound passport arbitrary--"in general public ... judicial scrutiny for ascertaining
their nexus with the order impounding the passport, the
refusal to disclose the reasons would also be open to the
scrutiny
this behalf a valid passport or travel document'.
36. Section 6 of the Passports Act, 1967 speaks of 'Refusal of Passports, travel documents ... Refusal of passports, travel documents. etc.
(1) Subject to the other provisions of this Act, the passport authority shall refuse to make an endorsement
