India or Citizen of Nepal? b. Whether he has
surrendered his Indian Passport? If yes, kindly provide certified copy of
the document which suffices ... this Embassy, if any? d. Whether Shri Bishnu Krishna
Shrestha has surrendered Indian Passport/Indian Citizenship to obtain
Nepalese Citizenship or not? Kindly furnish
points:-
"Since I got citizenship of United States, I have surrendered my
passport bearing No H8416992 issued on 20/07/2010 in your office ... under:-
"2. As per our records, you have surrendered your Indian passport to
this office on 23/12/2015 after acquiring
vide
letters dated 09.10.2020 and 19.11.2020 that even copy of his surrendered
passport were destroyed in accordance with Record-Retention-Period
their name, Father's name, date of birth, date of
surrender of passport & address, who had surrendered their Indian Passport and have been ... their Indian Passports in any one of the passport offices
across the country and outside India and have been issued Portuguese Passports. Information
sought
Singh
Soni, the Appellant. The Appellant was then asked to surrender his earlier passport
or to provide an explanation for suppression of facts along with ... respect of his lost passport. The Appellant, however, instead of
surrendering the passport or providing an explanation filed a complaint before the CIC.
The Appellant
penalty u/s 12 (1A) of Passport Act 1967 for not
surrendering Indian passport/travelling on Indian passport after acquisition of foreign
citizenship
CPIO, the Appellant filed a
First Appeal dated 27.06.2023. The FAA, Regional Passport Officer vide
order dated 13.07.2023 stated as under:-
"I am satisfied ... been filed. He stated that Mr. Hiren L.
Malde had surrendered his passport on 14.03.024 and informed that matter
is under investigation but chargesheet
namely,
(i) photocopy of the British Passport, (ii) date of issue of British Passport and (iii)
date of surrender of Indian Passport along with ... public document. He further stated that the date of surrender of the Indian passport
does not reveal any personal information, hence, should have been conveyed
only wants
to know that whether the holder of particular Indian Passport has surrendered or not,
which should be replied by the respondents
information. The reasons are as
follows:
th
"Brahmbhatt Indumati Morlidhar obtained Passport No. E.9461418 issued on June 15 2004, under
Tatkaal Scheme ... been granted Anticipatory Bail on condition of surrendering their passports to the
local police station. However, it was also noted that the Appellant was able
