JUDGMENT

(Prayer: Criminal Original Petition filed under Section 482 of the Code of Criminal Procedure to call for the entire records and quash the FIR in Crime No.244/2018 on the file of the Inspector of Police, Central Crime Branch (CCB)-I, Team-32, Chennai.)

1. This petition has been filed to call for the entire records and quash the FIR in Crime No.244/2018 on the file of the Inspector of Police, Central Crime Branch (CCB)-I, Team-32, Chennai.

2. The petitioner/accused in Crime No.244 of 2018 for offence under Section 12(1A)(a) of the Indian Passport Act has filed this quash application

3. The gist of the case is that on 02.01.2018, a complaint, received from the Regional Passport Officer addressed to the Commissioner of Police, Chennai stating that the petitioner applied for Indian Passport during 2004 by furnishing her 10th mark sheet, degree certificate and ration card, she had declared in her passport application that she is an Indian by birth. The undertaking given by the petitioner in column 17 of the passport application is “I owe allegiance to the sovereignty, unity and integrity of India and have not voluntarily acquired the citizenship or travel travel document of another