HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT ALLAHABAD WRIT - C No. - 33725 of 2025 Court No. - 21 HON'BLE MANOJ KUMAR GUPTA, J. HON'BLE ARUN KUMAR, J. 1. Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and Shri Vivek Tripathi, learned counsel for the respondent. 2. The following prayer has been made in the present petition: "I- Issue a writ, order or direction in the nature of mandamus commanding and directing the respondent no.2 to issue the passport in favour of the petitioner, bearing file No.LK4066107393022 as early as possible." 3. The passport has not been issued to the petitioner apparently in view of pendency of a criminal case against the petitioner bearing Case Crime No.9 of 2016 under Sections 323, 504 and 506 IPC in which chargesheet has been submitted. 4. It has been held by a Coordinate Bench in Writ-C No. 41540 of 2023 (Pawan Kumar Rajbhar vs. Union of India and 2 others) and other connected matters decided on 19.01.2024 that in such an event, it is open to the person concerned to seek no-objection from the jurisdictional criminal court in respect of grant of passport and the Regional Passport Officer shall act, accordingly. 5. In view of the aforesaid position, we dispose of the writ petition with liberty to the petitioner to apply before the concerned court for no- objection and in case, the same is granted, the Regional Passport Officer Versus Counsel for Petitioner(s) : Mohd Hamid Counsel for Respondent(s) : A.S.G.I., C.S.C., Vivek Tripathi Imtiyaj .....Petitioner(s) Union Of India And 3 Others .....Respondent(s) shall proceed to take further action in the matter taking into notice the no- objection granted by the court. September 24, 2025 Ankit. WRIC No. 33725 of 2025 2 (Arun Kumar,J.) (Manoj Kumar Gupta,J.) Digitally signed by :- ANKIT VISHWAKARMA High Court of Judicature at Allahabad