Neutral Citation No. - 2025:AHC:121590-DB Court No. - 21 Case :- WRIT - C No. - 23957 of 2025 Petitioner :- Hariom Yadav Respondent :- Union Of India And 3 Others Counsel for Petitioner :- Janardan Yadav Counsel for Respondent :- A.S.G.I.,C.S.C. Hon'ble Manoj Kumar Gupta,J. Hon'ble Ram Manohar Narayan Mishra,J. 1. Heard learned counsel for the petitioner, Sri Ashish Kumar, learned counsel for respondent nos. 1 and 2 and learned Standing Counsel for respondent nos. 3 and 4. 2. The following prayer has been made in the present petition:- "I - Issue a writ, order or direction in the nature of mandamus commanding and directing the respondent no. 2 to issue the passport in favour of petitioner, bearing file No. LK4065106451621, as early as possible." 3. The case of the petitioner is that the Passport Authority is not issuing passport to the petitioner on account of pendency of 01 NCR against him. It is urged that the same is not an impediment in issuing passport to the petitioner. 4. He places reliance of paragraph-21 of the judgement in Pawan Kumar Rajbhar vs. Union of India and 2 others in Writ-C No. 41540 of 2023, which is as follows:- "21. Therefore, we are inclined to read the word 'proceeding' used in Sections 6 (2) (f) and 10 (3) (e) of the Act to allow minimum scrutiny/application of mind by the jurisdictional Criminal Court under whose territorial jurisdiction a criminal investigation or enquiry or trial may be pending, as may be the case. Thus, where an offence may be pending investigation at a Police Station, the Court/Judicial Magistrate having territorial jurisdiction over that Police Station may grant permission to a person accused of that criminal offence, to travel abroad. Insofar as NCR are concerned, learned A.S.G.I. has categorically and most fairly stated, there is no reason to withhold issuance, renewal or reissue of a passport. The Regional Passport Authority do not and in any case they shall not withhold issuance, renewal or re-issuance of individual passports against report of NCR against any citizen applicant." 5. Learned counsel appearing for Union of India does not dispute that in the aforesaid judgement, a Co-ordinate Bench, after considering provisions of Passport Act, has held that mere lodging of NCR against a person is not an impediment in issuing passport to him. 6. In view of the above, we dispose of the instant writ petition with direction to respondent No. 2 to consider the application by the petitioner for grant of passport within four weeks from the date of communication of the instant order on its own merits without treating the NCR to be an impediment. (R.M.N. Mishra, J.) (Manoj Kumar Gupta, J.) Order Date :- 24.7.2025 Jaideep/- Digitally signed by :- JAIDEEP BANERJEE High Court of Judicature at Allahabad