WP/4220/2025 of JANARDHA REDDY VALLAPUREDDY Vs THE UNION OF INDIA

APHC010079042025 IN THE HIGH COURT OF ANDHRA PRADESH AT AMARAVATI [3331] (Special Original Jurisdiction) TUESDAY ,THE FIRST DAY OF APRIL TWO THOUSAND AND TWENTY FIVE PRESENT THE HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE SUBBA REDDY SATTI WRIT PETITION NO: 4220/2025 Between: Janardha Reddy Vallapureddy ...PETITIONER AND The Union Of India and Others ...RESPONDENT(S) Counsel for the Petitioner: 1. S.NAGESWARAREDDY Counsel for the Respondent(S): 1. MALLAMPALLI SRINIVAS(CENTRAL GOVT COUNSEL) The Court made the following ORDER: Heard Sri Raja Dharmaji Rao, learned counsel representing Sri S.Nageswara Reddy, learned counsel for the petitioner, Sri M.Srinivas, learned central Government counsel appeared for respondents 1 and 2 and Sri Ajay, learned Assistant Government Pleader for Home appeared for respondents 3 and 4. 2. The above writ petition is filed to declare the action of 2nd respondent in not processing the application made by the petitioner vide File No.VJ3076978311124 and issuing passport to the petitioner, as illegal and arbitrary. 2 3. Learned counsel for the petitioner would submit that the passport was granted to the petitioner, initially in the year 2000, for a period of ten years and renewed