Serial No.118 SUPPLEMENTARY CAUSE LIST-I HIGH COURT OF JAMMU & KASHMIR AND LADAKH AT SRINAGAR WP(C) 2512/2025 Waqas Rashid …Petitioner(s) Through: Mr. Javid Hamid, Advocate Vs. Union of India and Ors. ...Respondent(s) Through: Ms. Yasmeen Jan, Advocate vice Mr. T.M. Shamsi, DSGI Mr. Mohd Younis Hafiz, Assisting Counsel CORAM: HON’BLE MR. JUSTICE RAHUL BHARTI, JUDGE. ORDER 14.10.2025 01. This writ petition calls for disposal at its very inception stage keeping in view the innocuous nature of the relief being sought, as the petitioner came to apply for issuance of passport in his favour in the prescribed form on 11.09.2024 bearing clean antecedents without any legal disability attending upon him to suffer dismissal/denial of the passport and despite that the petitioner’s application has not been processed to logical conclusion at the end of the respondents concerned. 02. This writ petition is disposed of with a direction to the respondents to dispose of the petitioner’s application for issuance of passport within a period of one month from the date certified copy of this order being delivered by the petitioner to the respondent No. 2-Regional Passport Officer Srinagar, Kashmir as well as respondent No. 3- Inspector General of Police, CID/CIK, Kashmir, Srinagar. 03. Disposed of. (RAHUL BHARTI) JUDGE SRINAGAR: 14.10.2025 “Mir Arif”