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IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY

ORDINARY ORIGINAL CIVIL JURISDICTION

INTERIM APPLICATION (L) NO. 41081 OF 2025

IN

WRIT PETITION NO. 4909 OF 2024

Mr. Vishal Shamlal Chhabria …. Applicant

IN THE MATTER BETWEEN:-

Mr. Vishal Shamlal Chhabria …. Petitioner

V/s.

The Union of India & Ors. …. Respondents

Ms. Faiza A. Dhanani i/by Cue Legal for the Applicant.

Mr. Shubham Saraf i/by Mr. Pavan Patil, for the Respondent No.1-UOI.

Ms. Nazia Sheikh, AGP for the Respondent No.2-State.

Mr. Akshay Putharan (through V.C.), for the Respondent No.3-Bank of

Baroda.

CORAM : BHARATI DANGRE &

SHYAM C. CHANDAK, JJ.

DATED : 24th DECEMBER, 2025

P.C. :-

1) Present Interim Application filed in the aforesaid Writ Petition,

seeks direction to permit the Applicant/Petitioner to travel abroad i.e., to

Bangkok, Thailand from 29/12/2025 to 02/01/2026 as per the itinerary

annexed at Exhibit – B.

2) Heard learned Counsel for the respective parties.

3) We have perused the Application. It states that the

Applicant/Petitioner is desirous to travel abroad to attend business meetings.

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The learned Counsel for the Respondents opposed the

Application.

4) The Application deserves to be entertained in the wake of the

interim directions issued by the Apex Court in Special Leave to Appeal (C)

Nos.17194 and 17230/2024 raising a challenge to the Order passed by the

Division Bench where it held that the Bank has no power to issue a Look Out

Notice and the Apex Court, by way of an interim Order, has directed the

Applicant/Petitioner who is desirous of traveling abroad to approach the High

Court and obtain requisite permission.

5) It is in the wake of the aforesaid circumstances, the Application is

filed seeking the requisite permission with a specific pleading that, earlier, on

several occasions, the Applicant was permitted to travel abroad on furnishing

his itinerary of travel and accordingly, he had travelled abroad and returned

back to India within the timeline that was specified.

6) In view of the above and the observations in the earlier Orders,

we are inclined to allow this Application and pass the following Order :-

(a) The Applicant is permitted to travel to Bangkok,

Thailand from 29/12/2025 to 02/01/2026 strictly in accordance

with the Schedule for travel – Exhibit – B to attend business

meetings.

(b) The Applicant shall file an undertaking in this

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Court within three working days setting out a detailed itinerary

of the above travel including the airline tickets, addresses of the

hotels where he would be staying during the above travel, along

with other contact details. This undertaking shall also state that

the Applicant shall return to India 02/01/2026.

(c) The Applicant shall also file another undertaking

within three working days stating that he would not apply for

renewal and/or extension of this Order until he returns to India.

(d) Both the aforesaid undertakings shall also be

furnished to the Advocate for Respondent - Bank before the date

of departure.

7) Subject to the above conditions, the Look Out Circular issued by

the Respondent No.3 – Bank of Baroda against the Applicant/Petitioner is

suspended upto 02/01/2026.

8) The Immigration Authorities at all Ports of Departure including

all Airports will permit the Applicant’s/Petitioner’s passage and allow him to

take his flights out of the country irrespective of whether the Respondent

No.3 (Bank of Baroda) intimates the immigration Authorities about the travel

permission.

9) The Immigration Authorities shall not insist upon a certified

copy of this Order but will act on presentation of an authenticated or digitally

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signed copy of this Order.

10) The Interim Application