Makhdoom Ali v. Union of India and 3 Others
Case brief
What is this about?
Allahabad High Court, WRIT - C No. 42403 of 2025, Makhdoom Ali v. Union Of India And 3 Others, decided December 2, 2025 (Atul Sreedharan and Anish Kumar Gupta, JJ.). Passport renewal withheld by passport department despite trial court permission obtained during pendency of a criminal case; Court directed issuance of the passport, its deposit before the trial court, and left any future foreign travel to the trial court's discretion on a fresh application. Search terms: passport renewal, criminal case pending, permission to travel abroad, trial court permission, passport department, writ petition, disposed.
What did the court decide?
Direction to the passport department to issue the passport to the petitioner; petitioner to forthwith deposit the passport before the learned trial court; future foreign travel subject to an application before, and the discretion of, the learned trial court.