Neutral Citation No. - 2025:AHC-LKO:42533-DB Court No. - 2 Case :- WRIT - C No. - 6717 of 2025 Petitioner :- Anant Ranjan Sahu Respondent :- Union Of India Thru. Secy. Ministry Of External Affairs New Delhi And 3 Others Counsel for Petitioner :- Sanjay Kumar Shukla,Aniket Srivastav,Aprajita Shukla Counsel for Respondent :- A.S.G.I.,C.S.C. Hon'ble Rajan Roy,J. Hon'ble Manish Kumar,J. 1. Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and Sri Varun Pandey, learned counsel for the opposite parties. 2. By means of this petition, the petitioner has sought a writ of mandamus commanding opposite party no. 2 to consider the petitioner's application dated 22.02.2025 and 21.04.2025 for renewal of passport. 3. In para 7 of the writ petition, pendency of an F.I.R. bearing Case Crime No.438/2015, under Sections 279 and 304A I.P.C., Police Station Ashiyana, District Lucknow has been mentioned and after concluding the investigation, charge sheet has been filed and trial is pending in the trial court. 4. We have already elucidated the law with regard to matters where passport is not being issued on account of pendency of criminal trial in our judgments such as decision dated 20.11.2018 passed in Writ Petition No.31723 (M/B) of 2018 'Salim Kumar vs. Union of India & Ors.'; judgment dated 03.12.2022 rendered in Writ-C No.8621 of 2022 'Shiv Shankar vs. Union of India & Ors.'; decision dated 21.06.2022 rendered in Writ-C No.3617 of 2022 'Smt. Rashmi Kapoor vs. Union of India & Ors.'; decision dated 13.11.2024 passed in Writ-C No.9562 of 2024 and a recent decision dated 21.10.2024 rendered by this very Division Bench in Writ-C No.8874 of 2024 'Shah Alam vs. Union of India & Ors.', yet writ petitions are being filed seeking such reliefs as has been prayed therein. This wastes the time of the Court. Petitioner should seek remedy before the Court where criminal trial is pending in the light of our judgments referred hereinabove. 5. Accordingly, the petition is disposed of. . [Manish Kumar,J.] [Rajan Roy,J.] Order Date :- 24.7.2025 S. Kumar Digitally signed by :- SANTOSH KUMAR High Court of Judicature at Allahabad, Lucknow Bench