It is an offense under the Passports Act 1967 to give false information in the Application. Passport facilities can be denied on grounds of suppression of factual information, submission of false particulars, willful damage of passport and for making unauthorized changes in the passports. Your passport can be impounded or revoked by the Government of India under the provisions of the Passports Act 1967 in which event you will have to surrender the passport to the nearest Indian Passport authority. This time schedule does not apply to services where prior approval is required from the authorities in India. Such passports are not dispatched by mail.
Cash is accepted only at the counter.
Personal checks are not accepted. Applications in most cases sent in by mail, normally take about one days for processing. Please refrain from making telephonic or written enquiry's in such cases about the status of your application, as it takes about 45 days to complete enquiry's. For return of passport by mail, please send a self-addressed and adequately stamped envelope along with your application. If the application is found to be in order and if no prior reference is required to be made to the original Passport Issuing Authority, the passport will be issued in the normal course.