JUDGMENT

Date : 21-02-2023

Heard Mr. Amit Shrivastava, learned counsel along with Mr. Arif Daula Siddiqui, learned counsel for the petitioner and Dr. Krishna Nandan Singh, learned Additional Solicitor General assisted by Mr. Ram Tujabh Singh, learned counsel for the Union of India.

2. The present writ petition has been filed by the petitioner for the following reliefs:

[A] For issuance of an appropriate writ order or direction setting aside the letter dated 13-10- 2017 (Annexure-8) issued by the Regional Passport Officer Patna informing the petitioner regarding closure of Passport application bearing File No. PA 107344039013 because denial of a citizens right to go abroad is violation of Fundamental Rights guaranteed under Article 14 , 19 & 21 of the Constitution of India as has been settled by the Constitution Bench of Supreme Court of India in the case of Satwant Singh Sawhney versus D. Ramarathnam. Assistant Passport Officer, New Delhi and others reported in AIR 1967 SC 1836 and thereafter commanding the respondents to reopen the File No. PA 107344039013 and issue fresh passport in the name of petitioner containing date of Birth as 05-08- 1994, by exercising the power contained in C