IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Civil Writ Petition No.9952 of 2009 Date of Decision: 09.07.2009 Sanjiv Kumar Petitioner Versus Union of India and another Respondents CORAM:- HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE JASBIR SINGH Present: Mr. V.D.Sharma, Advocate for the petitioner ….. Jasbir Singh, J.(Oral) This writ petition has been filed by the petitioner with a prayer that directions be issued to respondent No.2 to issue him Passport No.B- 5085348 (first passport) instead of wrongly delivered Passport No.F- 5644327 (second passport). Record reveals that first passport was issued to the petitioner on 29.12.2000. It is case of the petitioner that the first passport was misplaced somewhere in his house. Without disclosing that fact, he applied afresh to get a passport. On that application, second passport was granted to him. Thereafter, the petitioner reported to respondent No.2 that his earlier passport has been traced. Upon getting this information, show cause notice, to impose penalty, was issued to him and after getting his response, penalty amount of Rs.5000/- was imposed upon him on 4.5.2009. It is case of the petitioner that he actually wanted to surrender his second passport. In view of that he submitted police clearance certificate for release of first passport, whereas, respondent No.2, on account of some inadvertent mistake, has Civil Writ Petition No.9952 of 2009 dispatched him the second passport. By stating his grievance, to claim first passport, the petitioner has already sent a representation (Annexure P7) and a legal notice (Annexure P8) to the respondents, which are still pending undecided. In view of facts mentioned above, this writ petition is disposed of by issuing directions to respondent No.2 to decide representation/ legal notice filed by the petitioner, as per law and if there is no legal hitch, first passport be released in favour of the petitioner. Needful be done within a period of one month from the date of receipt of a copy of this order. 09.07.2009 (Jasbir Singh) gk Judge 2