THE HON'BLE SRI JUSTICE GOPALA KRISHNA TAMADA WRIT PETITION No.2549 of 2010 DATE:09.02.2010 Between: Mohammed Zaafreen .... Petitioner and The Regional Passport Officer, Passport Office, Visakhapatnam, A.P. .... Respondent THE HON'BLE SRI JUSTICE GOPALA KRISHNA TAMADA WRIT PETITION No.2549 of 2010 ORDER: According to the petitioner, she has applied for passport to the respondent by furnishing all the relevant certificates and the respondent issued passport bearing No.H-2948784 on 20.02.2009. Subsequently, on coming to know that the place of birth was wrongly mentioned as Akividu instead of Rajahmundry in the passport, she approached the respondent and submitted a representation on 01.02.2010 seeking correction of the place of birth in the passport. Despite the said application, no action has been taken by the respondent so far. Aggrieved thereby, she filed the present writ petition. 2. Heard both the counsel. 3. The Government of India has issued instructions vide Circular Memo dated 18.04.2001 indicating the procedure to be followed whenever applications are made for correction of entries in passports. When once the petitioner submitted a representation dated 01.02.2010 to the respondent seeking correction of the place of birth as Rajahmundry, the respondent is bound to consider his representation and pass necessary orders, in the light of the Circular Memo dated 18.04.2001. Instead of doing so, he kept the representation of the petitioner pending. 4. Accordingly, the writ petition is disposed of with a direction to the respondent to consider the representation of the petitioner dated 01.02.2010 keeping in view the Circular Memo dated 18.04.2001. This exercise shall be completed within a period of four (4) weeks from the date of receipt of a copy of this order. There shall be no order as to costs. __________________________________ GOPALA KRISHNA TAMADA, J 9th February, 2010 cbs THE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE GOPALA KRISHNA TAMADA WRIT PETITION No.2549 of 2010 (Disposed of) 9th February, 2010 cbs