HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT ALLAHABAD WRIT - C No. - 12579 of 2025 Court No. - 40 HON'BLE SARAL SRIVASTAVA, J. HON'BLE SUDHANSHU CHAUHAN, J. 1. Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned counsel for the respondents. 2. The petitioner by means of present writ petition has prayed for the following relief: "(i) Issue a writ, order or direction in the nature of mandamus commanding the respondent nos. 2 and 3 to take appropriate decision on the online application dated 21.02.2025 submitted by the petitioner for issuance of passport, expeditiously within time bound period as may be fixed by this Hon'ble Court. (ii) Issue any other suitable writ, order or direction which this Hon'ble Court may deem fit and proper in the circumstances of the case. (iii) To award costs of the petition to the petitioner." 3. Petitioner has applied for issuance of passport. According to the petitioner, the respondent no.2-Regional Passport Officer, Lucknow has neither issued the passport nor has passed any order for grant of issuance of passport. 4. Since, the decision in respect of issuance of the passport is to be taken by respondent no.2, accordingly, petitioner is permitted to file a representation before respondent no.2-Regional Passport Officer, Lucknow within a period of three weeks from today. On filing the said representation, respondent no.2 shall consider and decide the application for issuance of passport to the petitioner in the light of the judgment of this Court in Writ-C No.41540 of 2023, Pawan Kumar Rajbhar Vs. Union of India & others, within a period Versus Counsel for Petitioner(s) : Manoj Kumar, Saurabh Raj Counsel for Respondent(s) : Sushil Kumar Mishra, A.S.G.I. Shiv Prasad .....Petitioner(s) Union Of India And 2 Others .....Respondent(s) one month from the date, the representation of the petitioner is received by respondent no.2. 5. With the aforesaid observation, the present petition is disposed off. October 6, 2025 NS WRIC No. 12579 of 2025 2 (Sudhanshu Chauhan,J.) (Saral Srivastava,J.) Digitally signed by :- NITIN KUMAR High Court of Judicature at Allahabad