WP/2644/2025 of S NIRANJAN REDDY Vs THE UNION OF INDIA

APHC010045302025 IN THE HIGH COURT OF ANDHRA PRADESH AT AMARAVATI [3331] (Special Original Jurisdiction) MONDAY ,THE TWENTY FOURTH DAY OF MARCH TWO THOUSAND AND TWENTY FIVE PRESENT THE HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE SUBBA REDDY SATTI WRIT PETITION NO: 2644/2025 Between: S Niranjan Reddy ...PETITIONER AND The Union Of India and Others ...RESPONDENT(S) Counsel for the Petitioner: 1. HARINATH REDDY SOMA Counsel for the Respondent(S): 1. BETHAPALLI SURYANARAYANA (CENTRAL GOVT COUNSEL) The Court made the following: ::ORDER:: Heard Sri Phani Kumar, learned counsel representing Sri Harinath Reddy Soma, learned counsel for the petitioner; Sri B. Surya Narayana, learned counsel or respondents 1 to 3 and Sri Ajay, learned Assistant Government Pleader for Home, for respondents 4 and 5. 2. The above writ petition is filed to declare the action of respondents 2 and 3 in not renewing/reissuing passport bearing No.K9198017, in pursuance of his application No.VJ1077234593324, due to the pendency of C.C.No.216 of 2015 on the file of learned Judicial Magistrate of First Class – Special Mobile Court, Chittoor, as illegal and arbitrary. 3. The petitioner was issued with a passport and the same was expired. He