HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT ALLAHABAD WRIT - C No. - 20780 of 2025 Court No. - 40 HON'BLE SARAL SRIVASTAVA, J. HON'BLE AMITABH KUMAR RAI, J. 1. Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned Standing Counsel for the State-respondents. 2. Petitioner's application for issuance of passport apparently has been kept pending on account of his implication in one criminal case, in which he has been enlarged on bail. Reliance is placed upon the Division Bench judgment of this Court in Writ-C No.41540 of 2023 (Pawan Kumar Rajbhar Vs. Union of India & others), in order to contend that mere pendency of criminal cases cannot be a ground to deny issuance of passport to the petitioner. 3. In the facts of the case, we permit the petitioner to approach the concerned court where the aforesaid case is pending for grant of no objection certificate by the court concerned so that the passport authorities can take a fresh decision in the matter relating to issuance of the petitioner's passport. 4. Petitioner, therefore, is at liberty to approach the concerned court which shall act in terms of the law laid down in Pawan Kumar Rajbhar (supra) and based upon its decision, the passport authorities would do the needful by passing Versus Counsel for Petitioner(s) : Ashok Kumar Yadav Counsel for Respondent(s) : A.S.G.I., Ravi Prakash Singh Ajay Yadav .....Petitioner(s) Union Of India And Another .....Respondent(s) appropriate orders within a further period of two months, thereafter. 5. Accordingly, the present writ petition is disposed off. September 9, 2025 Sumaira WRIC No. 20780 of 2025 2 (Amitabh Kumar Rai,J.) (Saral Srivastava,J.) Digitally signed by :- SUMAIRA AQUIL High Court of Judicature at Allahabad Digitally signed by :- SUMAIRA AQUIL High Court of Judicature at Allahabad