2023 (8) TMI 1040

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....ed to the Regional Passport Officer, Trichy in the year 1994 and obtained passport. He was working as Mason in Singapore. The passport was subsequently renewed. The petitioner's passport expired in the year 2014. He once again applied for renewal through an agent. The agent had given false particulars. Therefore, the petitioner was asked to appear for enquiry before the police authority. The p....

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....reign countries. He was working in Singapore and later in Middle East. The action taken by the respondent cannot be faulted. If false particulars and false documents are given, the Passport Authority has no option but to impound the passport. 6. The petitioner has no where challenged the basic premises on which the impugned action is resting. Therefore, the question of granting declaration as sou....