1. As issue involved in all these writ petitions is one and the same, they are disposed of by way of this common order.

2. These writ petitions have been filed praying for issuance of a writ of Mandamus to direct the 3rd respondent to issue passport to the petitioners.

3. The petitioners herein have applied for issuance of passport, with an intention to leave to go abroad for seeking their livelihood. They have made the applications to the 3rd respondent on different dates. While they were eagerly awaiting for issuance of passport, vide his proceedings (different dates) the 3rd respondent has informed the petitioners that he has received an adverse police verification report corresponding to their application for passport and directed the petitioners to give suitable explanation within 30 days regarding the circumstances under which, they had suppressed the material information in the passport application regarding the pendency of criminal cases. Thereafter only, the petitioners came to know that their names have been falsely implicated by the Police in the First Information Report, for having participated in the agitation against the Koodankulam Nuclear Project. It is the cas