IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY ORDINARY ORIGINAL CIVIL JURISDICTION WRIT PETITION NO.1440 OF 2008 Tina Krishnan ..... Petitioner V/s. Union of India & Ors. .....Respondents Ms.Aparana D. Vhatkar, for the Petitioner. Mr.G.Hariharan a/w Mandar Goswami i/b Dr.T.C.Kaushik, for the respondents. CORAM : P.B.MAJMUDAR & A.A.SAYED, JJ. DATED : 24th SEPTEMBER, 2008. P.C. 1. The petitioner herein has raised a genuine difficulty in the matter of getting passport. According to the petitioner, her biological father has deserted the petitioner and her mother long back and subsequently, the mother of the petitioner has married to one Krishnan Anant Narayanan. But the said gentleman could not legally adopt the petitioner as her daughter, because she has already crossed requisite age as per Hindu Adoption & Maintenance Act. 2. An application was made by the petitioner to issue passport by showing the name of Mr.Krishnan, as her father in the column prescribed in the passport where the name of the father is required to be shown. In this behalf, Gazaette change has also been effected showing the name of “Tina Krishnan” instead of “Tina Ramesh Thakur”. The passport authority refuses to issue passport showing the name of Krishnan Anant Narayanan as father of the petitioner, as there is no valid adoption. 3. The learned counsel for the respondents, on instructions, states that the Passport authority is ready to issue passport by showing the name of the mother of the petitioner only, by keeping the column of father's name as blank. He further submitted that the passport authority may also consider as to whether the name of Mr.Krishnan can be shown in the column of the petitioner's father, in case petitioner produces satisfactory material as required by the Authority in this behalf. Even in future, if any application is made by the petitioner in this behalf, the passport authority may also consider at the relevant time the question as to whether the entry in the passport can be changed by showing the name of the said gentleman as father of the petitioner in the column where the name of the father is required to be shown. The learned counsel for the respondents further submitted that if any, evidence is produced along with the affidavit of her mother, the passport authority may consider the prayer made by the petitioner for showing the name of Krishnan Anant Narayanan where the father's name is to be mentioned. 4. Considering the aforesaid statements of the learned counsel for the respondents, the passport authority is directed to consider the question of issuing passport to the petitioner by showing the name of her mother only and keeping the father's name blank. The passport authority may also consider to issue passport by showing the name Krishnan Anant Narayanan in the column of petitioner's father, in case the petitioner produces satisfactory material as required by the Passport Authority in this behalf. It is for the passport authority to consider whether the name of Krishnan Anant Narayanan can be shown as father of petitioner only on the basis of affidavit of her mother or whether any other documentary evidence is required in this behalf. This aspect is left to the consideration of passport authority. However, if the passport authority is of the opinion that at present, it is not possible to issue passport on that basis, then the passport may be issued to the petitioner within a period of one month showing the name of her mother and keeping the name of the father as blank. It is clarified that in case any exigency arises in future, it will be open to the petitioner to approach this Court again. With the above observations, the petition is disposed of. ( A.A.SAYED, J. ) ( P.B.MAJMUDAR, J. )