AJN 1 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY CRIMINAL APPELLATE JURISDICTION CRIMINAL WRIT PETITION NO.993 OF 2009 Shahzia w/o. Mohammed Arafat Merchant A.K.A. Shahzia d/o. Mustafa Dossa. ... Petitioner Vs. The Union of India & Anr. ... Respondents Mr. Harshad H. Ponda for the petitioner. Mr. S.R. Shinde with Mr. M.S. Bharadwaj for respondent 1. Mr. V.B. Konde-Deshmukh, A.P.P. for the State. Mr. B.S. Rokade, Asstt. Passport Officer, Regional Passport Office, Mumbai is present. CORAM : SMT. RANJANA DESAI & R.G. KETKAR, JJ. DATED : 6TH MAY, 2009. P.C.:- 1. The petitioner has prayed in this petition that a direction be issued to the respondents to issue a fresh passport to her bearing File No.E-001516. AJN 2 2. Mr. Shinde, learned counsel for respondent 1 has tendered in this court today, a fax message received by Regional Passport Office, Mumbai, from Mr. K.R. Rajan Pillai, Deputy Secretary (Passport and Visa Section - I), Ministry of External Affairs, New Delhi. The fax message says that the passport will be re-issued to the petitioner. The said fax message is taken on record and marked “X”. Mr. Shinde, on instructions from Mr. B.S. Rokade, Assistant Passport Officer, Regional Passport Office, Mumbai, states that the passport will be re-issued to the petitioner on 8/5/2009. This statement is accepted. 3. In view of this, the petition does not survive and the same is disposed of in terms of the above statement. T [SMT. RANJANA DESAI, J.] [R.G. KETKAR, J.]