SCA/8125/2025

NEUTRAL CITATION C/SCA/8125/2025 JUDGMENT DATED: 23/06/2025 2025:GUJHC:32429 IN THE HIGH COURT OF GUJARAT AT AHMEDABAD R/SPECIAL CIVIL APPLICATION NO. 8125 of 2025 FOR APPROVAL AND SIGNATURE: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE NIRAL R. MEHTA ========================================================== Approved for Reporting Yes No ✔ ========================================================== HARGOVINDBHAI MOTIBHAI DESAI Versus UNION OF INDIA & ANR. ========================================================== Appearance: ANURAG R RATHOR(9315) for the Petitioner(s) No. 1 MR PRADIP D BHATE(1523) for the Respondent(s) No. 1,2 ========================================================== CORAM:HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE NIRAL R. MEHTA Date : 23/06/2025 ORAL JUDGMENT 1. Rule, returnable forthwith. Learned advocate Mr.Pradip Bhate waives service of Rule for the respondents. 2. The present Special Civil Application seeks a direction to hold the reissue of the passport of the petitioner for ten years, as the said action of not reissuing the passport as being violative of his fundamental right and therefore, being illegal, arbitrary and discriminatory and in violation of the provisions of the Passport Act, 1967. 3.