HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT ALLAHABAD WRIT - C No. - 30604 of 2025 Court No. - 40 HON'BLE SARAL SRIVASTAVA, J. HON'BLE AMITABH KUMAR RAI, J. 1. Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and Ms. Ritu, learned counsel for the Union of India. 2. The petitioner by means of present writ petition has prayed for the following relief:- "i. Issue a writ, order or direction in the nature of mandamus directing the respondent no.2 i.e. Competent Authority, Regional Passport Officer, Complex Vipin Khand Gomti Nagar, Lucknow U.P. to reissue the passport in favour of the petitioner as he had applied on 01.07.2025. ii. Issue a writ, order or direction in the nature of mandamus directing the respondent no.2 i.e. Competent Authority, Regional Passport Officer, Complex Vipin Khand Gomti Nagar, Lucknow U.P. to decide the application of the petitioner dated 01.07.2025 which is still pending since then expeditiously if possible within a stipulated period. iii. Issue any other writ, order or direction which this Hon'ble Court may deem fit and proper in the facts and circumstances of the case. iv. Award to cost of the petition in favour of the petitioner." 3. The petitioner has applied for issuance of passport. According to the petitioner, the respondent no.2-Regional Passport Officer, Complex Vipin Khand, Gomti Nagar, Lucknow has neither issued the passport nor has passed any order for grant of issuance of passport. 4. Since, the decision in respect of issuance of the passport is to be taken by respondent no.2, accordingly, petitioner is permitted to file a representation before respondent no.2-Regional Passport Officer, Complex Vipin Khand, Versus Counsel for Petitioner(s) : Satish Kumar, Subhash Chandra Mishra Counsel for Respondent(s) : A.S.G.I., Ritu Mohd Ahamad .....Petitioner(s) Union Of India And 2 Others .....Respondent(s) Gomti Nagar, Lucknow within a period of three weeks from today. On filing the said representation, respondent no.2 shall consider and decide the application for issuance of passport to the petitioner in the light of the judgment in Writ-C No.41540 of 2023, Pawan Kumar Rajbhar Vs. Union of India & Others within a period one month from the date, the representation of the petitioner is received by respondent no.2. 5. With the aforesaid observation, the present petition is disposed off. September 25, 2025 Sattyarth WRIC No. 30604 of 2025 2 (Amitabh Kumar Rai,J.) (Saral Srivastava,J.) Digitally signed by :- SATTYARTH ANAND High Court of Judicature at Allahabad