JUDGMENT

1. By way of filing the present petition under Section 482 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973, the petitioner has challenged the order dated 13.07.2022 passed by the learned Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate, Sangariya, Hanumangarh (hereinafter referred to as "the trial Court"), whereby petitioner's application seeking Court's permission for issuance of passport has been rejected.

2. The facts necessary for consideration in the present petition are that the petitioner was facing trial for the offences under sections 472, 420, 120B, 465, 467, 468 and 471 of the Indian Penal Code in the Criminal Case No.89/2019. During pendency of trial, the petitioner moved an application before the learned trial Court seeking necessary directions to the passport authority to issue him a passport. The said application filed by the petitioner was rejected by the learned trial Court vide order dated 13.07.2022, observing inter-alia that no urgency was shown by the petitioner before the Court below that he is in harsh need to visit Canada and Australia and that the petitioner is not having a valid passport.

3. Mr. D.K. Godara, learned counsel representing the petitioner argued that the pe