Neutral Citation No. - 2025:AHC:135445-DB Court No. - 21 Case :- WRIT - C No. - 26866 of 2025 Petitioner :- Ashok Kumar Singh Respondent :- Union Of India And 4 Others Counsel for Petitioner :- Kumar Ashutosh Srivastava,Nagendra Pratap Singh 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 Sri N.P. Singh, learned counsel for the petitioner and Sri Sanjay Kumar Yadav, 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 to direct the authority concern to re-issue Passport No.M5703720 (Fine No.2075588771525) in favour of the petitioner, within specific period." 3. The passport has not been issued to the petitioner 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 :- 11.8.2025 Amit Digitally signed by :- AMIT KUMAR High Court of Judicature at Allahabad