Neutral Citation No. - 2025:AHC:108708-DB Court No. - 21 Case :- WRIT - C No. - 16860 of 2025 Petitioner :- Ram Pyare Lal Respondent :- The State Of U.P. And 3 Others Counsel for Petitioner :- Prahlad Kumar Bhardwaj Counsel for Respondent :- A.S.G.I.,Ajay Kumar Gautam,C.S.C. Hon'ble Manoj Kumar Gupta,J. Hon'ble Ram Manohar Narayan Mishra,J. 1. Heard Shri Prahlad Kumar Bhardwaj, learned counsel for the petitioner and Shri Ajay Kumar Gautam, learned counsel for respondent No. 4 and learned standing counsel for the State respondents. 2. The following prayer has been made in the present petition: "I- Issue writ, order or direction in the nature of mandamus directing the respondent no. 4 to grant the renewal to the Passport No. M3028328 of the petitioner expeditiously within the period stipulated by this Hon'ble Court." 3. The passport has not been renewed, apparently in view of pendency of two criminal cases against the petitioner. 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 grant 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 :- 8.7.2025 Jaideep/- Digitally signed by :- JAIDEEP BANERJEE High Court of Judicature at Allahabad