Neutral Citation No. - 2025:AHC-LKO:3474-DB Court No. - 2 Case :- WRIT - C No. - 173 of 2025 Petitioner :- Shivam Chandra Respondent :- U.O.I. Thru. Secy. Ministry Of External Affairs New Delhi. And Another Counsel for Petitioner :- Amitesh Pratap Singh,Abhijeet P. Singh Chauhan,Ashutosh Goswami,Neetu Bhardwaj Counsel for Respondent :- A.S.G.I. Hon'ble Rajan Roy,J. Hon'ble Manish Kumar,J. Heard. The petitioner sought renewal / re-issuance of his passport. He has one criminal case against him pending trial in the court of Special Chief Judicial Magistrate, Custom, Lucknow. On an application being filed by the petitioner the aforesaid court has granted permission for issuance of passport to the petitioner for one year vide its order dated 7.12.2024, copy of which is annexed as Annexure 5. However, inspite of it, the Regional Passport Officer referring to the provisions of GSR 570(E) dated 25.08.1993 says that the permission should have been for the petitioner to go abroad, therefore, he has asked the petitioner to seek permission from the court below. We grant liberty to the petitioner to seek a clarification or file a fresh application, as the case may be, before the court which had granted the permission, as referred above, which shall consider and decide the same accordingly, but expeditiously, say within four weeks of submission of such application. The consequences shall follow accordingly as per law. Disposed of. Order Date :- 20.1.2025 S. Kumar Digitally signed by :- SANTOSH KUMAR High Court of Judicature at Allahabad, Lucknow Bench