THE HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE RAJA ELANGO CRIMINAL REVISION CASE No.1977 OF 2011 ORDER: The petitioner preferred this Criminal Revision Case with a prayer to direct the respondent-police to register a case regarding missing of his passport. The contention raised by the learned counsel for the petitioner is that the petitioner was facing D.V.C. No.05 of 2008 on the file of the VII Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate, Hyderabad and during the pendency of the said D.V.C., he filed his old passport and also the renewed passport before the concerned Court. After completion of the said D.V.C., the concerned Court passed an order as follows: “It is also needless to mention that R1 is at liberty to get his passport from the Court after executing necessary bond. Thus the point is answered accordingly.” Subsequently, when the petitioner filed an application before the trial Court for return of the passport, the same was returned stating that no such passport was deposited in the Court. The petitioner in order to get new passport filed a complaint before the trial Court under Section 156(3) of Cr.P.C. for registration of F.I.R. In the said complaint, he has also informed the said facts observed above and requested the trial Court to refer the same under Section 156(3) Cr.P.C. From a reading of the entire complaint and also a perusal of the records, it is evident that the passport is filed before the trial Court. Therefore, it is the bounden duty of the trial Court to verify the records and to return the said passport to the petitioner. Hence, the trial Court is directed to handover the passport of the petitioner to him on or before 30.10.2011 or otherwise, inform the petitioner herein regarding missing of his passport filed by him before the concerned Court. In case, if the said passport is lost by the Court concerned, the Court is at liberty to direct the Court Officer to lodge a complaint regarding missing of the passport and to give a copy of the said complaint to the petitioner also. With the above observations, the Criminal Revision Case is disposed of. ________________________ JUSTICE RAJA ELANGO Dated : 22.09.2011 pnb