Neutral Citation No. - 2025:AHC:113330-DB Court No. - 21 Case :- WRIT - C No. - 22358 of 2025 Petitioner :- Pankaj Upadhyay Respondent :- Union Of India And 2 Others Counsel for Petitioner :- Anil Kumar Kannojia,Ashutosh Kumar Nishad,Prabhat Kumar Counsel for Respondent :- A.S.G.I.,Anju Srivastava Hon'ble Manoj Kumar Gupta,J. Hon'ble Ram Manohar Narayan Mishra,J. 1. Heard Sri A.K. Kannojia, learned counsel for the petitioner and Ms. Anju Srivastava, learned counsel appearing on behalf of the respondent Nos 1 to 3. 2. The following prayer has been made in the present petition:- "Issue a writ, order or direction in the nature of mandamus commanding the respondents to reissue/renew the passport in favour of the petitioner in pursuance of submitting application as File No.LK307505613425 dated 20.05.2025" 3. The passport has not been renewed apparently in view of pendency of a criminal case 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 :- 15.7.2025/Amit Digitally signed by :- AMIT KUMAR High Court of Judicature at Allahabad