IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA CWJC No.5759 of 2009 JITENDRA PRASAD SINGH . Versus THE UNION OF INDIA & ORS . ----------- 4/ 18/01/2011 Learned counsel for the Union of India places before the Court an E-mail received by him from the Regional Passport Office, Patna dated 17.1.2011 that the police report in respect of the petitioner received from the Superintendent of Police, Saran, had been retrieved from the records of the Passport Office itself and that the passport was being dispatched today i.e. 17.1.2011. Let a print out of E-mail be kept on record. Learned counsel for the Union of India submits that the Court may grant latitude for a delay of two or three days from that mentioned in the E-mail for actual dispatch. The Court believing in the stand taken by the Union of India disposes this application. It shall be the obligation of the Union of India in the Passport Department to ensure that the petitioner receives his passport within reasonable time which necessarily has to be computed within a maximum period of two weeks given the fact that the delivery has to be made at Chapra dispatched from Patna failing which the issues of contempt may arise. KC ( Navin Sinha, J.)