Passport Renewal cannot be rejected merely for Pendency of Criminal Cases

Asutosh Amrit Patnaik Vs State of Orissa (Orissa High Court) As per notification No. GSR 570(E) dated 25.8.1993 issued by the competent authority to consider the pendency of criminal case in the granting of renewal of the passport in certain circumstance more particularly issuing a set of guidelines which read as follows: “(a) the passport to be issued to every such citizen shall be issued- (i) for the period specified in order of the court referred to above, if the court specifies a period for which the passport has to be issued; or (ii) if no period either for the issue of the passport or...