1 WPL NO.1798/2011 lgc IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY ORDINARY ORIGINAL CIVIL JURISDICTION WRIT PETITION (L) NO.1798 OF 2011 Hitesh Ghevarchand Jain @ Hitesh Balchand Jain : Petitioner versus Union of India and ors. : Respondents. Mr. V A Madane & C K Bhangoji for the Petitioner. Mr. R I Chagala with Mr. A R Varma for Respondent No.1. CORAM : P B MAJMUDAR & R M SAVANT, JJ. DATE : 14th September 2011 P.C. 1 The claim of the Petitioner is based on adoption. The learned counsel for the Petitioner is unable to point out as to whether any ceremony for adoption has taken place. In our view, the issue involved in this Petition as to whether the adoption is valid or legal cannot be decided by this Court in its writ jurisdiction and this Court cannot direct the Passport Authority to accept the adoption as valid adoption. For that purpose, the Petitioner has to file substantive civil suit and, if any decree is passed in his favour in the said suit, he can approach the Passport Authority for changing his name in the passport. In this view of the matter, no case for invocation of the writ jurisdiction under Article 226 of the Constitution of India is made out. We, accordingly, dismiss the Petition with liberty to file substantive civil suit. [R.M.SAVANT, J] [P.B.MAJMUDAR, J]