https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=302476 Pendency of a First Information Report, without cognizance by a criminal court, does not amount to proceedings pending before a court for refusal of a passport under the Passports Act, 1967. Section 6(2)(f) applies only where proceedings in respect of an alleged offence are actually pending before a criminal court in India; mere FIR registration remains at the investigation stage. Once the Magistrate takes cognizance under Section 190 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, the matter acquires the character of pending court proceedings. As the passport applications were rejected only on the basis of FIRs, the refusal was not justified and the applications had to be considered. en-us Fri, 27 Jun 2014 00:00:00 +0530 Sun, 29 May 2022 21:23:43 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=302476 Pendency of a First Information Report, without cognizance by a criminal court, does not amount to proceedings pending before a court for refusal of a passport under the Passports Act, 1967. Section 6(2)(f) applies only where proceedings in respect of an alleged offence are actually pending before a criminal court in India; mere FIR registration remains at the investigation stage. Once the Magistrate takes cognizance under Section 190 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, the matter acquires the character of pending court proceedings. As the passport applications were rejected only on the basis of FIRs, the refusal was not justified and the applications had to be considered. Case-Laws Indian Laws Fri, 27 Jun 2014 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=302476