Hon'ble LOHRA, J.—Petitioner Haji Menu, resident of Jaisalmer, has preferred this writ petition seeking directions against the respondents for issuance of passport without any further delay.

2. The apposite facts for the purpose of this writ petition are that the petitioner applied for issuance of passport under the Passports Act, 1967 (for short, ‘Act of 1967’) and the requisite application form No.186362 was submitted on 5th May 2006. Acknowledging the receipt of the form of the petitioner, respondent No.2 assigned the same, File Reference No. A046267-2006 dated 7th of June 2006. On receipt of the application form of the petitioner, the second respondent made endeavor for verifying character and other antecedents of the petitioner in accordance with law and requisite information in this behalf was divulged to respondent No.3 & 4 respectively. The petitioner has categorically averred in the petition that in normal course application for issuance of passport is processed and finalized within six months but in his case when nothing was heard for more than a year, he sought requisite information from the website of the passport authority on 3rd of April 2007. As per information availa

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