Lakhwinder Singh @ Lakhi vs Union of India

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2023 Supreme(P&H) 2292

JASGURPREET SINGH PURI
Lakhwinder Singh @ Lakhi – Appellant
Versus
Union of India – Respondent

Advocates Appeared:
Mr. Sanjay Gupta, Advocate, for Petitioner.
Mr. Karan Kumar Jund, Advocate, for Respondents.

JUDGMENT

Jasgurpreet Singh Puri, J. (Oral)

The present petition has been filed under Articles 226/227 of the Constitution of India seeking a writ in the nature of mandamus for issuance of directions to the respondents to release the passport No. P5098135 dated 05.02.2017 to the petitioner as impounded vide seizure memo dated 12.12.2018.

2. Learned counsel for the petitioner submitted that it is a case where the petitioner was having a valid passport and on the basis of the aforesaid passport, he was to go to Germany since a child was born to him and his wife was in Germany and he had gone there. On 12.12.2018 he had gone to board a flight and when he was at Indira Gandhi International Airport, New Delhi his passport was confiscated by the airport authorities with the result that he could not even go even though his child was born two days ago. He submitted that the respondent passport authorities have caused serious prejudice to the petitioner when they intimated the airport authorities for seizure of the passport since the exercise of power was not just and proper. He submitted that the petitioner was not intimated with regard to any order of impounding of passport by the passport

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