CWP No.2828 of 2008 -: 1 :- IN THE HIGH COURT FOR THE STATES OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH CWP No.2828 of 2008 Date of decision: January 28, 2009. Sukhdev Singh ...Petitioner(s) v. Union of India & Ors. ...Respondent(s) CORAM:HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE SURYA KANT 1. Whether Reporters of local papers may be allowed to see the judgment ? 2. Whether to be referred to the Reporters or not ? 3. Whether the judgment should be reported in the Digest? Present: Shri Sukhwinder Singh Chatrath, Advocate for the petitioner. Shri R.D. Sharma, Deputy Advocate General, Haryana. Shri S.K. Sharma, Advocate, Standing Counsel for respondent(s) No.1 & 3. ORDER Surya Kant, J. - (Oral): The petitioner seeks a mandamus for issuance of a passport to him. It appears that earlier the petitioner was issued passport bearing No.A-0505532. The petitioner is stated to have misplaced the same. A DDR was got recorded by him and based upon that, duplicate passport was issued in his favour. The petitioner is claimed to have lost the duplicate passport also. He applied third time and it appears that since the police CWP No.2828 of 2008 -: 2 :- authorities made some adverse comments regarding the petitioner's antecedents on the ground that Jarnail Singh Bhindrawale had visited his village/house prior to the year 1984, that the new passport could not be issued in his favour. Having heard Learned Counsel for the parties and keeping in view the fact that an incident, which took place prior to 1984, can possibly have no material bearing at this stage, provided that the subsequent conduct of the petitioner has been above board, I am of the considered view that the matter requires reconsideration by the police authorities of District Fatehabad. This writ petition is accordingly disposed of with a direction to the Superintendent of Police, Fatehabad to reconsider the petitioner's prayer for issuance of Police Clearance Certificate after getting the antecedents of the petitioner re-verified, especially his subsequent conduct/activities during the post-1984 period. The needful shall be done within a period of two months from the date of receipt of a certified copy of this order. January 28, 2009. [ Surya Kant ] kadyan Judge