ORDER :

The petitioner is knocking at the doors of this Court calling in question acknowledgment dated 20-09-2023 issued by the 2nd respondent/Regional Passport Office declining to issue a normal validity passport for a period of ten years to the petitioner, on its re-issuance.

2. Facts adumbrated are as follows:-

The petitioner is an employee working in the cadre of Senior Manager (Process and Planning) at Mann+Hummel Filter Private Limited, Tumakuru. The petitioner was issued a normal passport like any citizen of the nation which was to be valid for a period of ten years from 11-04-2014 to 10-04-2024. During the said period the petitioner gets embroiled in a crime registered for offences punishable under Sections 302, 201, 120-B and 182 r/w 34 of the IPC. The petitioner is arrayed as accused No.2 and his father and wife are arrayed as accused Nos. 1 and 3. The said proceedings are pending trial in S.C.No.28 of 2017 before the VI Additional District and Sessions Judge, Tumakuru. When the crime was registered, the petitioner preferred an application under Section 439 of the Cr.P.C