HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT ALLAHABAD WRIT - C No. - 39295 of 2026 Court No. - 2 HON'BLE J.J. MUNIR, J. HON'BLE INDRAJEET SHUKLA, J. Heard learned Counsel for the petitioner and Mr. Saurabh Singh, Advocate holding brief of Ms. Deepmala Srivastava, learned Central Government Counsel appearing on behalf of the Union of India. The petitioner has suppressed information in the application for issue of the passport the pendency of Crime No. 24 of 2013 under Sections 323, 504, 354 IPC, P.S. Gajner, District Kanpur Dehat. The Regional Passport Officer, Lucknow has issued a show cause notice to the petitioner, requiring him to submit his explanation regarding the circumstances under which he has suppressed the material information in his passport application relating to the case aforesaid. The petitioner's case pleaded in paragraph no. 19 of the writ petition is that Case Crime No. 24 of 2013 was a case, where the petitioner has been falsely implicated and the Investigating Officer has submitted a final report and this part of the information, the Regional Passport Officer, Lucknow has not at all considered before issuing the show cause notice dated 18.10.2022 to the petitioner. Be that as it may. It is open to the petitioner to file his explanation to the show cause notice dated 18.10.2022, clearly mentioning the fact that he asserts before this Court regarding the final report filed by the Police after investigation together with a certified copy of the report and the order of the learned Magistrate, if any, accepting the final report. Versus Counsel for Petitioner(s) : Aditya Pratap Singh, Piyush Kumar Pandey Counsel for Respondent(s) : A.S.G.I., C.S.C. Shiv Saran Singh .....Petitioner(s) Union Of India And 5 Others .....Respondent(s) Upon the aforesaid explanation being submitted by the petitioner, which he will do within ten days of date, the Regional Passport Officer, Lucknow is ordered to pass appropriate orders on the petitioner's application for the issue of a passport within two weeks of the petitioner submitting his explanation. The writ petition is disposed of in terms of the aforesaid order. Let this order be communicated to the Regional Passport Officer, Lucknow through the learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Lucknow by the Registrar (Compliance) within 24 hours. September 29, 2026 Deepak WRIC No. 39295 of 2026 2 (Indrajeet Shukla,J.) (J.J. Munir,J.) Digitally signed by :- DEEPAK KUMAR PANDEY High Court of Judicature at Allahabad