Parliament
passed the Passport Act, 1967 regulating conditions for the grant and refusal
of passport and providing grounds for impounding passport. Even after
passing ... condition to
surrender the passport or when there is a request to release the passport
already surrendered in court.
Section
their passports; rather, the passports were impounded. The
Regional Passport Officer acted on the Customs Department's
communication: their holding the passport would harm ... owned valid passports. Faced
WPC Nos.29873/2018 &
conn.cases 5
with a direction from the Regional Passport Authority to surrender
their passports, they
2017, dated 05.07.2018 directing the
petitioner to surrender his passport No.K6424632, within a period of
7 days as illegal and arbitrary ... Passport
Authority under the Passports Act, 1967 has been conferred with
the Authority to impound or caused to be impounded/revoked a
passport or travel
done by the Passport Authority under Section 10(3) of the Passport Act. Hence, if the police seizes a passport (which it has power ... Passport Authority to decide whether to impound the passport or not. Since impounding of a person has civil consequences, the Passport Authority must give
observed that the passport cannot be impounded. Section 10 of the Passports Act provides for variation, impounding and revocation of the passports and other documents ... produced before it, but not passport. The facts in the present case is not impound of the passport, but surrender of passport in compliance
material information about
your previous passport and surrender the same. Please surrender your
old passport vide No.A-1091731 Dt.12.7.1996."
b) In reply ... passport in the year 1996,
and she obtained passport only on 31.03.1998, after conducting due
enquiry, and the said passport has been surrendered before
herein was asked to produce his passport. On 23.04.2018, the petitioner herein produced his passport. Perusal of his passport, revealed that the petitioner had travelled ... sustainable. Accordingly, this Criminal Revision Petition is dismissed.
13 The passport surrendered by the petitioner herein shall be returned to him since, the order passed
REGONAL PASSPORT OFFICER
PASSPORT OFFICE, THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, PIN CODE NO.682
036.
3 THE OFFICER IN CHARGE
PASSPORT SEVA KENDRA KOLLAM 74 BUILDING M.C.
VIII ... surrendered his earlier passport, he is
now entitled to get a new passport under the provisions of the
Passports Act, 1957 .
2. The learned Central
dated
25.01.2010, insofar as surrendering the Passport of the petitioner, bearing
No.G5789631, which is in the custody of the learned Judicial Magistrate ... should surrender his passport with the Court.
Accordingly, the petitioner/accused was released and his passport has been
surrendered and the same is now, under
vide order dated 08.05.2018
wherein the accused/revisionist was directed to surrender his passport and
was restrained from travelling abroad without permission of the Court ... than a
passport. This is because impounding a passport is
provided for in Section 10 (3) of the Passports Act. The
Passports
