ORDER

The petitioners are calling in question order dated

12-01-2022 passed by the 1st respondent/Joint Secretary and Chief Passport Officer, Ministry of External Affairs declining to grant an Indian passport to the 1st petitioner and have further sought quashment of a Surrender Certificate dated 22-05-2015 issued by the 5th respondent/Consulate General of India, Toronto and a consequential mandamus directing the 2nd respondent/Regional Passport Officer, Bengaluru to issue a valid Indian Passport to the 1st petitioner. In this order, for the sake of convenience 1st petitioner will be referred to as the son; 2nd petitioner as mother/wife and Sri Selvakumar Balasubramanian as the father/husband.

2. Shorn of unnecessary details, facts germane for a consideration of the lis, are as follows:-

The 2nd petitioner/wife gets married to one Sri Selvakumar Balasubramanian/husband on 4-11-2005. Both the husband and wife were Indian Citizens, residing in India. From the wedlock a son is born on 5-03-2008 in India – the 1st petitioner. It appears that the husband decides to relocate to Canada owing to his avocation in the year 2011. The wife joined him at Canada along with the son. In the year 2012