There is no legal requirement for insisting upon the father's name of the Applicant for issuing passport; Delhi HC [Read Order]
8 years, 10 months ago

There is no legal requirement for insisting upon the father's name of the Applicant for issuing passport; Delhi HC [Read Order]

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Mother’s name is sufficient in certain cases like the present one to apply for Passport, especially as a single woman can be a natural guardian and also a parent, held the Court.Delhi High Court has held that for issuing passport, there is no legal requirement for insisting upon the father's name of the Applicant. Justice Manmohan has allowed the Writ Petition filed by Shalu Nigam seeking reissuance of her daughter-petitioner No.2's passport without insisting upon her father's name being mentioned in the application. The Court has held that in the absence of any provision making it mandatory to mention the name of one's biological father in the Passport, the respondents cannot insist upon the same.Mother’s name is sufficient in certain cases like the present one to apply for Passport, especially as a single woman can be a natural guardian and also a parent, Court added. Accordingly, the respondents are directed to modify their software and accept petitioner No.2's application and issue her a Passport without insisting upon mentioning her father's name.

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Passport, Personal ID Details Can't Be Disclosed To Third Party Under RTI Act: Delhi High Court
1 month, 2 weeks ago

Passport, Personal ID Details Can't Be Disclosed To Third Party Under RTI Act: Delhi High Court

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The Delhi High Court has recently ruled that details about passport and personal identification documents cannot be disclosed to a third party under the Right to Information Act, 2005. Justice Sachin Datta referred to various judgments on the issue and said:“…disclosures which may be sought by a third party under the provisions of RTI act pertaining to passport or any …

'Applicant Cannot Be Denied Passport Merely Due To Criminal Antecedents Of Family Members': J&K High Court
1 month, 2 weeks ago

'Applicant Cannot Be Denied Passport Merely Due To Criminal Antecedents Of Family Members': J&K High Court

Live Law  

The Jammu and Kashmir High Court held that the criminal family background cannot be used as a reason to deny a passport to the one applying for it. The court observed that there is no reason to not recommend the case of the petitioner for the issuance of a passport, just because of the involvement of his brother in militancy …

[Custody Battle] Father's Consent For Renewing Child's Passport Not Required If Mother Files Declaration As Per Passport Rules: MP High Court
2 months, 1 week ago

[Custody Battle] Father's Consent For Renewing Child's Passport Not Required If Mother Files Declaration As Per Passport Rules: MP High Court

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The Jabalpur Bench of Madhya Pradesh High Court directed that the Regional Passport Office, Bhopal to renew the passports of the minor daughters of actor Nitish Bharadwaj while holding that the passport of minor children can be renewed without father's consent if there is no prohibitory order from any competent court. The form of Annexure-C declaring that there is an …

Courts Must Be Liberal In Giving NOC For Issuance Of Passport When Applicant Is Accused Of Matrimonial/Trivial Offence: Kerala HC
3 months, 3 weeks ago

Courts Must Be Liberal In Giving NOC For Issuance Of Passport When Applicant Is Accused Of Matrimonial/Trivial Offence: Kerala HC

Live Law  

The Kerala High Court has said that Courts have to be liberal while considering issuing a No Objection of Certificate for passports when the case pending against the applicant is a matrimonial issue or a trivial/ simple offence.In doing so the court said that if a liberal approach is not adopted in such cases, the applicant's right to go abroad …

Criminal Antecedents Of Family Members Can't Be Taken Into Account To Assess Applicant's Character For Issuing Passport: MP High Court
4 months, 1 week ago

Criminal Antecedents Of Family Members Can't Be Taken Into Account To Assess Applicant's Character For Issuing Passport: MP High Court

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In a recent ruling, the Indore Bench of Madhya Pradesh High Court held that criminal antecedents of family members cannot be taken into account in assessing applicant's character and application for the issuance of passport. The single-judge bench of Justice Subodh Abhyankar observed, “…the impugned order cannot be sustained in the eyes of law as the petitioner also enjoys all …

Right To Be Identified By One's Name Fundamental To Individual's Identity: Delhi High Court
11 months, 2 weeks ago

Right To Be Identified By One's Name Fundamental To Individual's Identity: Delhi High Court

Live Law  

The Delhi High Court has recently observed that name of an individual is an identity marker and the right to be identified by one's name is fundamental to one's very identity.“It partakes, therefore, of a primordial necessity, and the Court has, when petitioned in that regard, to ensure that the request, if genuine, is acceded to,” Justice C Hari Shankar …

Citizenship Act Prevails Over Passport Manual: Delhi High Court
1 year ago

Citizenship Act Prevails Over Passport Manual: Delhi High Court

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The Delhi High Court has said that the Citizenship Act, 1955, prevails over the Passport Manual of 2020, observing that a subordinate legislation cannot override the parent legislation.Justice Subramaniam Prasad allowed the plea moved by two minor children against the authorities' decision to cancel their Indian passports and not reissuing the same.The parents of the children were Indian. The Delhi …

Regressive To Mention Only Father's Name In Educational Certificates & Degrees, Names Of Both Parents Must Be Reflected: Delhi High Court
1 year ago

Regressive To Mention Only Father's Name In Educational Certificates & Degrees, Names Of Both Parents Must Be Reflected: Delhi High Court

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The Delhi High Court has observed that there is no reasonable justification for only mentioning name of the father in degrees and educational certificates issued to students. “It would be clearly retrogressive if educational certificates, degrees and other such documents reflect the name only of the father of a candidate, eliminating the name of the mother. Granting relief to Prasad …

Calcutta High Court Allows Rectification Of Child's Birth Certificate To Replace Biological Father's Surname With Step-Father's Surname
1 year ago

Calcutta High Court Allows Rectification Of Child's Birth Certificate To Replace Biological Father's Surname With Step-Father's Surname

Live Law  

The Calcutta High Court has recently allowed a plea moved by the mother of a minor child to replace the biological father's surname in the child's birth certificate with the name of the step-father.It was submitted that the child was born from her first marriage and that after the dissolution of that marriage, she remarried and moved out of the …

Delhi High Court says every citizen has the right to hold a passport
1 year, 8 months ago

Delhi High Court says every citizen has the right to hold a passport

The Hindu  

The Delhi High Court has said that every citizen has a legal right to hold a passport, and authorities cannot refuse to renew it merely on an apprehension that the earlier passports might have been misused. Justice Subramonium Prasad, while dealing with a petition by an Indian citizen seeking a change in the date of birth mentioned in his passport, …

Permissible to change surname over caste prejudices: Delhi HC
1 year, 9 months ago

Permissible to change surname over caste prejudices: Delhi HC

Hindustan Times  

New Delhi Every individual has the right to an honourable and respectable identity in society guaranteed under the right to life, the Delhi high court has said, while ruling that it is permissible for an individual to change his or her surname in order to not be identified with a particular caste that may cause prejudice. Permissible to change surname …

Delhi court allows Swamy to file reply opposing Rahul Gandhi’s plea for passport
1 year, 10 months ago

Delhi court allows Swamy to file reply opposing Rahul Gandhi’s plea for passport

Hindustan Times  

A Delhi court on Wednesday allowed Bharatiya Janata Party leader Subramanian Swamy to file a reply opposing Rahul Gandhi’s application seeking permission for issuance of a fresh ordinary passport. Swamy argued that the cases against Rhaul Gandhi are pending before the court and allowing him to travel would hamper the ongoing probe in the National Herald case. Gandhi had approached …

Minor’s Passport Can Be Issued Without Father’s Name, Depending Upon Circumstances: Delhi High Court
1 year, 10 months ago

Minor’s Passport Can Be Issued Without Father’s Name, Depending Upon Circumstances: Delhi High Court

Live Law  

The Delhi High Court has observed that the passport of a minor child can be issued without the biological father’s name under “varying circumstances” and that such a relief depends upon the “facts of each case.”Emphasising that no hard and fast rule can be applied in such cases, Justice Prathiba M Singh said that the Passport Manual of 2020 and …

"We Are Still Stuck In Patriarchal Notions": Madras High Court Directs Issue Of Passport To Man Whose Mother Was Indian And Father A Srilankan Refugee
1 year, 11 months ago

"We Are Still Stuck In Patriarchal Notions": Madras High Court Directs Issue Of Passport To Man Whose Mother Was Indian And Father A Srilankan Refugee

Live Law  

The Madras High Court recently directed the Regional Passport authority to consider the representation of a man who had applied for an Indian Passport. Justice GR Swaminathan of the Madurai bench noted that though the petitioner's father was also a Srilankan refugee, the fact that his mother was an Indian citizen was not disputed. The court noted that we were …

Mother being natural guardian can decide child's surname, says Supreme Court
2 years, 8 months ago

Mother being natural guardian can decide child's surname, says Supreme Court

India Today  

The Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that a mother who remarries after the death of her biological father can choose the surname of her child and include it in her new family. The bench of Justices Dinesh Maheshwari and Krishna Murari overturned an Andhra Pradesh High Court decision ordering a mother to change her child's surname and refer to her …

Subjecting Citizen To Police Scrutiny, Verification Of Personal Docs Without Any Reason Serious Invasion Of Right To Privacy: Delhi High Court
2 years, 8 months ago

Subjecting Citizen To Police Scrutiny, Verification Of Personal Docs Without Any Reason Serious Invasion Of Right To Privacy: Delhi High Court

Live Law  

The Delhi High Court has observed that subjecting a citizen to police scrutiny including verification of personal documents for no good reason would entail a serious invasion of his right to privacy. Justice Asha Menon made the observation while dealing with a plea filed by a complainant seeking directions on the Delhi Police to make enquiry for correct identification of …

Passport Cannot Be Denied To Child On Sole Ground That One Parent Is Non-Indian Citizen : Kerala High Court
3 years ago

Passport Cannot Be Denied To Child On Sole Ground That One Parent Is Non-Indian Citizen : Kerala High Court

Live Law  

The Kerala High Court recently ruled that even if one of the parents of a minor child refused to give consent, the passport issuing authority is entitled to issue a passport to the minor, provided the requisite form is submitted.While allowing the petition of a minor girl, Justice Bechu Kurian Thomas also observed that there is no legal prohibition in …

Kerala High Court Allows Plea Seeking Correction Of Deceased Parent's Name On Passport
3 years, 6 months ago

Kerala High Court Allows Plea Seeking Correction Of Deceased Parent's Name On Passport

Live Law  

The Kerala High Court recently allowed a plea seeking a correction in the parent's name on the passport even after their demise, provided that documents were produced to the satisfaction of the Regional Passport Officer. Assailing the request of the petitioner, the Passport Officer had argued before Justice Bechu Kurian Thomas that there was no law under which a person …

Delhi High Court Seeks Centre's Response On Plea Challenging Requirement Of Sex Change Certificate For Re-Issuance Of Passport To Transgender Persons
3 years, 8 months ago

Delhi High Court Seeks Centre's Response On Plea Challenging Requirement Of Sex Change Certificate For Re-Issuance Of Passport To Transgender Persons

Live Law  

The Delhi High Court on Tuesday asked the Centre to respond on a petition seeking issuance of a new passport to a Transgender woman with the required changes in name and gender without insisting on the production of sex-change certificate.A Division Bench of Chief Justice DN Patel and Justice Jyoti Singh allowed the request made by Centre's counsel, Soumya Singh, …

Inclusion Of Biological Mother's Name In The Passport Instead Of Step Mother's Would Not Cause Any 'Prejudice': P&H HC [Read Order]
4 years, 8 months ago

Inclusion Of Biological Mother's Name In The Passport Instead Of Step Mother's Would Not Cause Any 'Prejudice': P&H HC [Read Order]

Live Law  

The High Court of Punjab and Haryana recently directed the Regional Passport Office to allow an applicant's request for inclusion of her biological mother's name in her passport, instead of her step-mother's name. The Petitioner had moved the High Court stating that her biological mother's name is reflected in her birth certificate, educational certificates as well as Aadhar Card, therefore, …

Delhi HC Stays CIC Order Which Had Allowed A Wife To Get The Details Of Her Husband From The Passport Office Under RTI [Read Order]
4 years, 9 months ago

Delhi HC Stays CIC Order Which Had Allowed A Wife To Get The Details Of Her Husband From The Passport Office Under RTI [Read Order]

Live Law  

Delhi High Court has stayed the order passed by the Central Information Commission wherein the Central Public Information Officer of the Passport Office was directed to divulge the information about a man under an RTI application filed by his wife. The order has come in a writ petition moved by the Ministry of External Affairs against the order dated 15/05/20 …

Denial of passport affects fundamental rights, says Delhi High Court
6 years, 6 months ago

Denial of passport affects fundamental rights, says Delhi High Court

The Hindu  

The Delhi High Court has held that the denial of a passport or its non-renewal affects the fundamental rights guaranteed under the Constitution while directing the government to renew immediately the passport of a man whose residential status in Canada was in jeopardy due to a delay in the process of renewal. While processing Mr. Chauhan’s application, it was found …

Single Mothers Cannot Be Forced To Disclose Name Of Child’s Father For Birth Certificate: Madras HC [Read Order]
6 years, 8 months ago

Single Mothers Cannot Be Forced To Disclose Name Of Child’s Father For Birth Certificate: Madras HC [Read Order]

Live Law  

Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court on Wednesday made it clear that there exists no legal obligation for single mothers to disclose the name of their child’s father while registering for the child’s birth.Justice M.S. Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court on Wednesday made it clear that there exists no legal obligation for single mothers to disclose the …

Mere Act Of Seeking Political Asylum No Ground For Denying Passport, Not Prejudicial To Sovereignty And Integrity Of India: Delhi HC [Read Judgment]
7 years, 2 months ago

Mere Act Of Seeking Political Asylum No Ground For Denying Passport, Not Prejudicial To Sovereignty And Integrity Of India: Delhi HC [Read Judgment]

Live Law  

Can acts of individuals in visiting a foreign country on an Indian passport and then applying in that country for asylum, can be construed as “prejudicial to the sovereignty and integrity of India” result in justifiable refusal of passport to such individual under Section 6 of the Passport Act, 1967?The Delhi High Court has answered the question in negative while …

Delhi HC Unites Child With Adoptive Parents In Germany [Read Judgment]
7 years, 4 months ago

Delhi HC Unites Child With Adoptive Parents In Germany [Read Judgment]

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Bringing an end to the uncertainty surrounding a minor, who awaited a no-objection certificate from the Central Adoption Resource Authority to be able to unite with his adoptive parents in Germany, the Delhi High Court has directed that the same be issued to the adoptive parents in two weeks after which the minor be issued passport to travel to his …

Delhi HC Unites Child With Adoptive Parents In Germany [Read Judgment]
7 years, 4 months ago

Delhi HC Unites Child With Adoptive Parents In Germany [Read Judgment]

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Bringing an end to the uncertainty surrounding a minor, who awaited a no-objection certificate from the Central Adoption Resource Authority to be able to unite with his adoptive parents in Germany, the Delhi High Court has directed that the same be issued to the adoptive parents in two weeks after which the minor be issued passport to travel to his …

Delhi HC Miffed As Passport Office Chooses To Ignore Order On Passport To Tibetans Born In India [Read Judgment]
7 years, 6 months ago

Delhi HC Miffed As Passport Office Chooses To Ignore Order On Passport To Tibetans Born In India [Read Judgment]

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The Delhi High Court has slapped a cost of Rs. 25,000 to be paid to a man whose passport was revoked on illusory grounds ranging from concealment of his parents' Tibetan origin to Intelligence Bureau report that he has purchased several properties with funds from the foreign government.Justice Vibhu Bakhru also pulled up the passport office for asking the petitioner …

Power To Revoke Passport Serious Restriction On Fundamental Rights: Delhi HC [Read Order]
7 years, 8 months ago

Power To Revoke Passport Serious Restriction On Fundamental Rights: Delhi HC [Read Order]

Live Law  

“In the present case, there is no whisper of any allegation or any circumstance which would indicate that it is necessary to impound/revoke the petitioner’s passport in the interests of the sovereignty and integrity of India, the security of India or friendly relations of India with any foreign country,” it said. Observing that the power to revoke or suspend passport …

Kids of single mothers should get degree, caste certificates without naming their father: Maneka Gandhi
7 years, 11 months ago

Kids of single mothers should get degree, caste certificates without naming their father: Maneka Gandhi

India TV News  

Union Cabinet Minister for Women & Child Development Maneka Gandhi on Friday said that children of separated or divorced women should be able to get their degree and caste certificates without disclosing their father’s name in applications forms. In a letter to Human Resource Development and Social Justice and Empowerment ministries, Gandhi requested for a change in the guidelines to …

MP HC Allows Name Of Biological Father Be Replace With Step-father In Passport [Read Order]
8 years ago

MP HC Allows Name Of Biological Father Be Replace With Step-father In Passport [Read Order]

Live Law  

The Madhya Pradesh High Court has allowed the name of biological father be replaced with name of step-father in the passport of a girl.The petitioner girl moved the high court after the respondent passport authorities took no action for correction in the column of name of father/legal guardian as she wished.The petitioner girl is educated and brought up by her …

Children of single mothers can finally get passports made, but what took this long?
8 years, 3 months ago

Children of single mothers can finally get passports made, but what took this long?

Firstpost  

The Ministry of External Affairs has finally passed new rules meant to ease the passport application process. Now, 10 years after she tried to get her daughter a passport without her father’s name, the Ministry of External Affairs has finally passed new rules meant to ease the application process. These new passport rules come a few months after the Delhi …

Applying For Passport Made Easy: Read Significant Changes Brought In Passport Application Process
8 years, 3 months ago

Applying For Passport Made Easy: Read Significant Changes Brought In Passport Application Process

Live Law  

Aadhar as DoB, self-attestation and relief for single parents, divorcees, adopted children and orphans are the significant changesIn order to ‘streamline, liberalise and ease the process of issue of passport’, the Ministry of External Affairs has simplified passport application rules.Notifications reflecting these changes are yet to be published in gazette, but the ministry has. The online passport application form now …

Applying For Passport Made Easy: Read Significant Changes Brought In Passport Application Process
8 years, 3 months ago

Applying For Passport Made Easy: Read Significant Changes Brought In Passport Application Process

Live Law  

Aadhar as DoB, self-attestation and relief for single parents, divorcees, adopted children and orphans are the significant changesIn order to ‘streamline, liberalise and ease the process of issue of passport’, the Ministry of External Affairs has simplified passport application rules.Notifications reflecting these changes are yet to be published in gazette, but the ministry has. The online passport application form now …

Passport Can Bear Step-Father’s Name Without Judicial Declaration Of Legal Guardianship: Punjab & Haryana HC [Read Judgment]
8 years, 4 months ago

Passport Can Bear Step-Father’s Name Without Judicial Declaration Of Legal Guardianship: Punjab & Haryana HC [Read Judgment]

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The High Court of Punjab and Haryana has held that a child’s passport can carry the step-father’s name without a declaration by the court appointing him as a legal guardian. The court ordered the authority to issue the passport bearing the step-father’s name within a month.Considering the facts of the case, Justice Rakesh Kumar Jain said: “The step-father of the …

Passport Can Bear Step-Father’s Name Without Judicial Declaration Of Legal Guardianship: Punjab & Haryana HC [Read Judgment]
8 years, 4 months ago

Passport Can Bear Step-Father’s Name Without Judicial Declaration Of Legal Guardianship: Punjab & Haryana HC [Read Judgment]

Live Law  

The High Court of Punjab and Haryana has held that a child’s passport can carry the step-father’s name without a declaration by the court appointing him as a legal guardian. The court ordered the authority to issue the passport bearing the step-father’s name within a month.Considering the facts of the case, Justice Rakesh Kumar Jain said: “The step-father of the …

Don’t insist on biological father’s name: HC to passport authorities
8 years, 7 months ago

Don’t insist on biological father’s name: HC to passport authorities

Hindustan Times  

Punjab and Haryana high court have ruled that the passport authorities cannot insist on keeping biological father’s surname in the passport, if it is proved that the parties, at the time of divorce, had agreed to keep the surname of the mother. The passport authorities had told the court that under passport manual of 2010, parent’s name cannot be deleted …

Change of surname does not change one's caste and does not disentitle from claiming reservation: Bombay HC [Read Judgment]
8 years, 9 months ago

Change of surname does not change one's caste and does not disentitle from claiming reservation: Bombay HC [Read Judgment]

Live Law  

The Bombay High Court has held that a change of surname by a person does not change his caste and does not disentitle him from claiming reservation. Vacation Bench comprising of Justices Dr Shalini Phansalkar Joshi and B.R.Gavai allowed the writ petition which challenged the denial of benefit of reservation in post graduate admissionon the ground that the petitioner has …

Change of surname does not change one's caste and does not disentitle from claiming reservation: Bombay HC [Read Judgment]
8 years, 9 months ago

Change of surname does not change one's caste and does not disentitle from claiming reservation: Bombay HC [Read Judgment]

Live Law  

The Bombay High Court has held that a change of surname by a person does not change his caste and does not disentitle him from claiming reservation. Vacation Bench comprising of Justices Dr Shalini Phansalkar Joshi and B.R.Gavai allowed the writ petition which challenged the denial of benefit of reservation in post graduate admissionon the ground that the petitioner has …

There is no legal requirement for insisting upon the father's name of the Applicant for issuing passport; Delhi HC [Read Order]
8 years, 10 months ago

There is no legal requirement for insisting upon the father's name of the Applicant for issuing passport; Delhi HC [Read Order]

Live Law  

Mother’s name is sufficient in certain cases like the present one to apply for Passport, especially as a single woman can be a natural guardian and also a parent, held the Court.Delhi High Court has held that for issuing passport, there is no legal requirement for insisting upon the father's name of the Applicant. Justice Manmohan has allowed the Writ …

Delhi High Court hears a Petition challenging the Rule that mandates a Person to mention his Surname for incorporating a Private Firm
9 years, 8 months ago

Delhi High Court hears a Petition challenging the Rule that mandates a Person to mention his Surname for incorporating a Private Firm

Live Law  

An individual named Nishant, a businessman, has approached the Delhi High Court challenging a Rule notified last year by the Ministry for Corporate Affairs. The Rule mandated that a person must mention his surname for the purpose of incorporating a private firm. The petition read that, "Making the requirement of disclosure of surname mandatory does not serve any meaningful purpose …

Delhi High Court hears a Petition challenging the Rule that mandates a Person to mention his Surname for incorporating a Private Firm
9 years, 8 months ago

Delhi High Court hears a Petition challenging the Rule that mandates a Person to mention his Surname for incorporating a Private Firm

Live Law  

An individual named Nishant, a businessman, has approached the Delhi High Court challenging a Rule notified last year by the Ministry for Corporate Affairs. The Rule mandated that a person must mention his surname for the purpose of incorporating a private firm. The petition read that, "Making the requirement of disclosure of surname mandatory does not serve any meaningful purpose …

Bombay High Court says there is no law that prevents a wife from using surname of the husband even after divorce [Read the Judgment]
10 years, 2 months ago

Bombay High Court says there is no law that prevents a wife from using surname of the husband even after divorce [Read the Judgment]

Live Law  

Hearing a petition filed by a 67 year old lady who was divorced from her husband in 2003, the Bombay High Court has taken a view that "There is no law which prevents a wife from using her name adopted after the marriage containing the name and surname of her husband even after a decree of divorce is passed by …

Only in India: Name biological father, passport office tells woman with child out of wedlock
10 years, 4 months ago

Only in India: Name biological father, passport office tells woman with child out of wedlock

Firstpost  

According to reports, the passport authorities in Mumbai have asked a woman to name her daughter’s biological father in the passport, instead of her present husband and the child’s step father. Though the ministry of external affairs had clearly stated on 1 November that unwed mothers in India will not have to name the biological father of their child in …

Delhi High Court reiterates Fundamental Right to travel abroad and have Passport issued [Read the Judgment]
10 years, 8 months ago

Delhi High Court reiterates Fundamental Right to travel abroad and have Passport issued [Read the Judgment]

Live Law  

A Delhi High Court bench comprising of Justice Manmohan reiterated the Fundamental Right to travel abroad and have a passport issued. The petitioner was also directed to pay Rs 50,000 to the Lok Nayak Jai Prakash Narayan Hospital, observing that he has been negligent in taking care of his passport. In the recent case of Teesta Chattoraj Vs. Union of …

Delhi High Court reiterates Fundamental Right to travel abroad and have Passport issued [Read the Judgment]
10 years, 8 months ago

Delhi High Court reiterates Fundamental Right to travel abroad and have Passport issued [Read the Judgment]

Live Law  

A Delhi High Court bench comprising of Justice Manmohan reiterated the Fundamental Right to travel abroad and have a passport issued. The petitioner was also directed to pay Rs 50,000 to the Lok Nayak Jai Prakash Narayan Hospital, observing that he has been negligent in taking care of his passport. In the recent case of Teesta Chattoraj Vs. Union of …

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