HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT ALLAHABAD WRIT - C No. - 19405 of 2025 Court No. - 40 HON'BLE SARAL SRIVASTAVA, J. HON'BLE AMITABH KUMAR RAI, J. 1. List has been revised. Learned counsel for the respondents is not present. 2. Heard learned counsel for the petitioner. 3. Petitioner by means of present writ petition has prayed for the following relief: " (A) Issue a writ, order or direction in the nature of mandamus directing the respondent no.2 to renew a passport No.N-2973525 in favour of the petitioner and respondent no.3 may be directed to appropriately take action upon the Passport Application Reference No.25-20019540492 which was applied by the petitioner for the renewal of his passport No.N-2973525 and send report to the respondent no.4 within time bound period as directed by this Hon'ble Court." 4. Petitioner has applied for issuance/renewal of passport. According to the petitioner, the respondent no.2-Regional Passport Officer, Regional Passport Office, Vipin Khand, Gomti Nagar, Lucknow has neither issued the passport nor has passed any order for renewal of passport. 5. 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, Regional Passport Office, Vipin Khand, Gomti Nagar, 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/renewal of passport to the petitioner in the light of the judgment in Writ-C No.41540 of 2023, Pawan Kumar Rajbhar Vs. Union of India & others, within a period one month from the date, the representation of the petitioner is received by respondent no.2. Versus Counsel for Petitioner(s) : Amit Kumar Asthana Counsel for Respondent(s) : A.S.G.I., Naveen Chandra Gupta, Pramod Kumar Singh Imteyaz Ahmad .....Petitioner(s) Union Of India And 3 Others .....Respondent(s) 6. With the aforesaid observation, the present petition is disposed off. September 16, 2025 Mohit WRIC No. 19405 of 2025 2 (Amitabh Kumar Rai,J.) (Saral Srivastava,J.) Digitally signed by :- MOHIT KUMAR KUSHWAHA High Court of Judicature at Allahabad