1. The petitioner has asked for a direction on the respondents to withdraw and cancel a Lookout Circular (LOC) issued against him.

2. The petitioner's case is that the petitioner was off loaded from a flight on 15 January, 2023 when the petitioner was proposing to travel for a family wedding to Thailand. The case of the respondent / Bureau of Immigration is that the respondent Union of India was not the originator to the impugned Lookout Circular which was issued at the behest of the Chairman, State Bank of India.

3. By an order dated 15 March, 2023, learned counsel appearing for the Union of India was directed to produce the LOC. The LOC was produced before the court on 30 March, 2023. Counsel had also filed a letter dated 20 March, 2023 from the Foreigners' Regional Registration Office to the counsel stating that the Bureau of Immigration has no objection to withdrawal of LOC against the petitioner, if the Originator (Chairman, State Bank of India, Mumbai) requests or the concerned court directs the same.
The document produced by the Union of India described as the LOC only contains three of the four pages. However, the contents of the said document are significant. The first page o