R.Asok Kumar vs The State Of Kerala on 3 February, 1999
(i) The petitioner shall surrender his passport, if any, before
the jurisdictional Magistrate at the time of executing the
bail bond as aforesaid and if he is not the holder of a
passport, he shall file an affidavit to that effect in the said
court. If the petitioner requires his passport for travel
abroad, he is free to approach the concerned court for the
release of the same and in case such an application is
filed, the trial court or the jurisdictional Magistrate
concerned, as the case may be, is free to consider the
same on merit and to pass appropriate orders thereon,
taking sufficient guidance from the principles laid down by
this Court in the case Asok Kumar v. State of Kerala
[2009(2) KLT 712], notwithstanding the aforementioned
condition imposed by this Court.