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Passport authorities cannot insist upon mentioning the name of an applicant\u2019s father in the travel document, the Delhi High Court said on Monday.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere is no legal requirement for insisting upon the father\u2019s name in the passport,\u201d Justice Sanjeev Sachdeva said while referring to an earlier judgement passed by the high court in May this year.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn view of the above, the respondents (Regional Passport Office and others) are directed to issue a passport to the petitioner without insisting upon father\u2019s name,\u201d the court said.<\/p>\n

The court said this while dealing with a petition filed by a youth, whose request for renewal of passport was rejected by a Regional Passport Office for not mentioning the name of his biological father.<\/p>\n

The authorities had also cancelled his earlier passport which was valid till June 2017.<\/p>\n

The youth had contended before the court that a passport was issued to him in June 2007 and he had applied for its renewal this year.<\/p>\n

He said that his mother had divorced his father in 2003 on account of desertion and neglect.<\/p>\n

His counsel argued that his client is pursuing a course at Melbourne in Australia which would be over in June next year.<\/p>\n

He said that since the passport was to expire before the conclusion of the course, his client had applied for issuance of a fresh passport which was rejected by the authorities as he had not mentioned his father\u2019s name in the application.<\/p>\n

During the arguments, passport authority told the court that it was mandatory to give father\u2019s name in the application since its software does not accept applications without the father\u2019s name.<\/p>\n

They said that deletion of father\u2019s name on the ground of divorce was not permissible unless the parents have legally disowned the child.<\/p>\n

The court noted in its order that the youth\u2019s father\u2019s name was not mentioned even in the passport issued to him earlier.<\/p>\n

Regarding the contention of the passport authority that the computer would not accept application form without the father\u2019s name, the court said it may \u201cmodify\u201d its software expeditiously.<\/p>\n

The court directed the authorities to issue a passport to the youth within three working days, considering that he had applied for it under the Tatkal scheme.<\/p>\n

( Source – PTI )<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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Justice Vibhu Bakhru questioned the authority of the law enforcement agency to impound the passport. \"This is\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Top Law News"","block_context":{"text":"Top Law News","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/category\/top-law-news"},"img":{"alt_text":"Delhi HC pulls up ED over seizure of Qureshi's wife's passport","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/03\/delhi-high-court.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":36280,"url":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/cant-deny-passport-seeking-political-asylum-abroad-hc","url_meta":{"origin":44489,"position":5},"title":"Can’t deny passport for seeking political asylum abroad: HC","author":"Legal India Admin","date":"December 20, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"The Delhi High Court has held that a person's decision to seek political asylum in a foreign country in the past can't be a valid ground for denying him an Indian passport. 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