JUDGMENT :

The present writ petition has been filed for issuance of direction upon the respondents to forthwith return the passport bearing No. M8213324 to the petitioner which was issued in his favour on 06.08.2015 having expiry date as 05.08.2025 and was surrendered at Regional Passport Office, Ranchi on 05.11.2015. Further prayer has been made for quashing the order dated 21.07.2022 passed by the Additional Sessions Judge - XVI, Dhanbad in S.T. No. 443 of 2012, whereby an application filed by the petitioner seeking “no objection” for renewal of his passport has been rejected.

2. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that the petitioner was issued passport bearing No. A4200711 on 11.11.1997 having expiry date as 10.11.2017, however, the said passport subsequently got damaged which was informed by him to the respondent no. 1. The petitioner applied online for issuance of fresh passport and a new passport bearing No. M8213324 (hereinafter referred to as “the said Passport”) was issued to him on 06.08.2015 having expiry date as 05.08.2025. However, the petitioner was asked by the respondent no. 1 to surrender the said passport and as such he surrendered the same on 05.11.2015 in