petitioner-Ministry of External Affairs has been directed to provide copies
of passports of third parties along with their birth certificates, educational
qualifications and identity ... senior counsel for petitioners submits that
CIC failed to appreciate that the passport application contains personal
information and if disclosed, would cause unwarranted invasion
made primarily on the basis of the
assessee's old passport, which was requisitioned from the passport office and
which showed the numerous foreign ... done when the assessee was required to furnish
copies of his passport, and he stated that he had surrendered his old passport
to the issuing
raised in challenging the impugned orders, in brief, is that admittedly the passport of the petitioner was seized by the Customs authorities and is still ... prevent the detenu from indulging in smuggling, the seizure of the passport completely prevents such a detenu from smuggling and hence, the detaining authority
default SI of 1
month for the offence u/s 12 Passport Act.
All the sentences shall run concurrently.
Rs. 7000/- deposited as fine ... official of PV-II, MEA, Patiala
House to arrange unused official Visas/Passports, forge/alter
them for the purpose for sending persons illegally to foreign
JUDGMENT
22.12.2010
1. By a letter dated 1st September 2009 the Regional Passport Officer,
Delhi (‗RPO') informed the Petitioner that a decision had been ... taken by
the Ministry of External Affairs (‗MEA') that a passport could not be
issued in her favour under Section
read with Section 120-B and Section 12 of the Passports Act.
2. Briefly, the facts are that Section 111(d) of the Customs ... forgery, fabrication of documents and cheating, besides violation of provisions of the Passports Act , in regard to import of nine Honda cars. The CBI, after
Vide the present application, the applicant/appellant seeks directions
to Regional Passport Authorities, Delhi for renewal of the passport, subject
to compliance of all other ... behalf of the petitioner submits that the
applicant holds a valid Indian Passport bearing No. H4661781, which is due
to expire on 01.06.2019. The applicant
application dated 8.8.2011
sought the following information from the PIO of the Passport Office,
Ministry of External Affairs:
1. Provide the photocopy of the passport ... employee, or asks for a permission, licence or
authorization or passport, all these are public
activities. Also when a Citizen provides
daughter of appellant No. 2 Kamla. Appellant Kamla also produced a passport of appellant Harish Chander and her own photo pinned in the said passport ... open space where the photograph of the wife of the passport holder is to be affixed. Then on the next day of the instance
raised that the petitioner could not be called upon to produce his passport to the authorities under the Foreign Exchange Regulation Act .
5. I have
