C.W.P NO.18434 OF 2006 1 IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB & HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH * * * * * C.W.P NO.18434 OF 2006 Date of decision : November 27, 2006 * * * * * Kanwalpreet Singh Dhillon ............Petitioner Vs. Union of India & others ...........Respondents * * * * * CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE VINEY MITTAL HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE H.S BHALLA Present: Mr. Surinder Sharma, Advocate for the petitioner(s). * * * * * Viney Mittal, J. (Oral) Notice of motion to the respondents. On the asking of the Court, Sh. Rajiv Sharma, standing counsel for Union of India accepts notice on behalf of the respondents. Copy of the writ petition has been supplied to the learned counsel for the respondents. The petitioner has approached this Court for issuance of directions to the respondents to issue him a passport with a corrected date of birth i.e November 5, 1988 instead of May 11, 1988. It has been claimed by the petitioner that originally a passport had been issued to the petitioner by the Passport Officer, Nagpur which contained his correct date of birth. At the time of the renewal of the aforesaid passport, the new passport carried a wrong date of birth. Later on, when the new passport was being issued to the petitioner, the petitioner applied for correction of the date of birth, but the aforesaid request of the petitioner remains unresponded so far. In this view of the matter, the petitioner has approached this C.W.P NO.18434 OF 2006 2 Court through the present petition. After hearing the learned counsel for the petitioner and taking into consideration the averments made in the present petition, we find that the petitioner has served a legal notice Annexure P-4 dated June 12, 2006 which remains unresponded so far. In this view of the matter, without going into the merits of the claim made by the petitioner, we dispose of the present petition with a direction to the Regional Passport Officer, Jalandhar-respondent no.3 to take a final decision on the aforesaid legal notice within a period of 4 months from the date a certified copy of this order is received by him by passing a detailed and speaking order. Copy of this order be given dasti on payment of the usual charges. ( VINEY MITTAL ) JUDGE November 27, 2006 ( H.S BHALLA ) ritu JUDGE