HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT ALLAHABAD WRIT - C No. - 28124 of 2025 Court No. - 21 HON'BLE MANOJ KUMAR GUPTA, J. HON'BLE ARUN KUMAR, J. 1. Heard Sri Irfan Alim Siddiqui, learned counsel for the petitioner, Sri Sanjay Dwivedi, learned counsel for respondent no. 2 and learned Standing Counsel for respondent no. 1. 2. The following prayer has been made in the present petition: "I. Issue a Writ, Order or Direction in the nature of Mandamus directing the Respondent No. 2 to issue the passport of Petitioner within stipulated time frame, which has been pending since 28.07.2025 (Annexure No. 1)." 3. The passport has not been issued to the petitioner 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 Versus Counsel for Petitioner(s) : Irfan Alim Siddiqui Counsel for Respondent(s) : A.S.G.I., C.S.C. Kamal Khan .....Petitioner(s) State of U.P. and Another .....Respondent(s) 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. September 18, 2025 gp WRIC No. 28124 of 2025 2 (Arun Kumar,J.) (Manoj Kumar Gupta,J.) Digitally signed by :- GANESH PRAKASH High Court of Judicature at Allahabad