IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB & HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Civil Writ Petition No.4338 of 2010 Date of Decision : November 29, 2010. Rajinder Kaur .....Petitioner versus Union of India and another .....Respondents CORAM : HON'BLE MR.JUSTICE SURYA KANT. Present : Mr.J.S.Mannipur, Advocate, for the petitioner. Mr.Darshan Singh Bishnoi, Advocate, for the respondents. -.- 1. Whether Reporters of Local papers may be allowed to see the judgment? 2. To be referred to the Reporters or not? 3. Whether the judgment should be reported in the Digest? --- Surya Kant, J. (Oral) The petitioner seeks a mandamus to direct the respondents to renew her passport which she applied for vide File No.B-001463/09 dated 23.1.2009 in terms of Section 5 of the Passports Act, 1967, and in the light of the law laid down by the Division Bench of this Court in case of Balwinder Singh versus the Union of India and others, 2005 (1) PLR 346. During the course of hearing, learned counsel for the respondents has placed on record a photocopy of the communication dated 18.11.2010 received from the Ministry of External Affairs, Government of India vide which it has been decided to issue short validity passport to the petitioner to enable her to join her family with the condition that she will C.W.P.No .4338 of 2010 2 have to submit a duly sworn affidavit regarding recantation from her earlier position etc. Learned counsel for the petitioner states that the petitioner has no objection in furnishing the requisite affidavit for availing the one time concession granted by the Ministry of External Affairs, Government of India. In this view of the matter, no further directions are required to be issued in this writ petition and the same is disposed of as having been rendered infructuous. November 29, 2010 (SURYA KANT) Mohinder JUDGE