Neutral Citation No. - 2025:AHC:144914-DB Court No. - 21 Case :- WRIT - C No. - 28380 of 2025 Petitioner :- Arif Ansari Respondent :- Union Of India And 2 Others Counsel for Petitioner :- Dhananjay Kumar Thakur Counsel for Respondent :- A.S.G.I. Hon'ble Manoj Kumar Gupta,J. Hon'ble Ram Manohar Narayan Mishra,J. 1. Heard Shri Dhananjay Kumar Thakur, learned counsel for the petitioner and Shri Pradeep Kesarwani, learned counsel appearing on behalf of the respondents. 2. The following prayer has been made in the present petition:- "(A) Issue a writ, order or direction in the nature of mandamus commanding directing the respondents to process the application preferred by the petitioner through on-line for issue of passport and same may be issue the passport in favour of petitioner under the Passport Act, forthwith. (B) Issue a writ, order or direction in the nature of mandamus commanding directing respondents to consider and dispose of his application for issue of passport, within specific period." 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 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 :- 22.8.2025 Shiv Digitally signed by :- SHIV KUMAR SHARMA High Court of Judicature at Allahabad