Neutral Citation No. - 2025:AHC:130486-DB Court No. - 21 Case :- WRIT - C No. - 10035 of 2025 Petitioner :- Manjesh Kumar Tiwari Respondent :- Union Of India And 3 Others Counsel for Petitioner :- Ankit Srivastava,Rahul Srivastava Counsel for Respondent :- A.S.G.I.,Arvind Singh,C.S.C. Hon'ble Manoj Kumar Gupta,J. Hon'ble Ram Manohar Narayan Mishra,J. 1. Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned counsel appearing for the respondents. 2. The petitioner has prayed for a direction to the respondent authorities to re-issue passport under the Application Reference No. 23-0001861692 (for the reason - lost passport) to the petitioner. 3. It is admitted in paragraphs 16 and 17 of the writ petition that one criminal case is under investigation. 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 re-issue 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 shall proceed to take further action in the matter taking into notice the no-objection granted by the court. . (R.M.N. Mishra, J.) (Manoj Kumar Gupta, J.) Order Date :- 4.8.2025 Dhirendra/ Digitally signed by :- DHIRENDRA KUMAR High Court of Judicature at Allahabad