WP/5914/2025 of RAJA SHEKAR KOTHAPALLI Vs THE UNION OF INDIA

APHC010112742025 IN THE HIGH COURT OF ANDHRA PRADESH AT AMARAVATI [3331] (Special Original Jurisdiction) MONDAY ,THE SEVENTEENTH DAY OF MARCH TWO THOUSAND AND TWENTY FIVE PRESENT THE HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE SUBBA REDDY SATTI WRIT PETITION NO: 5914/2025 Between: Raja Shekar Kothapalli ...PETITIONER AND The Union Of India and Others ...RESPONDENT(S) Counsel for the Petitioner: 1. BHARGAVA RAJU MANTHINA Counsel for the Respondent(S): 1. GP FOR HOME 2. SRIDHAR TUMMALAPUDI ( CENTRAL GOVT COUNSEL) The Court made the following: ::ORDER:: Heard Sri M. Bhargava Raju, learned counsel for the petitioner; Sri T. Sridhar, learned standing counsel for respondents, 1, 3 and 4 and Sri Ajay, learned Assistant Government Pleader for Home, for respondents 2, 5 and 6. 2. The petitioner’s passport, issued on 15.02.2012 vide K.1835241 expired on 14.02.2022. The petitioner made an application vide reference No.24-10- 1013014525 dated 14.11.2024. Complaining inaction of respondents 3 to 6 in issuing a passport to the petitioner, the above writ petition is filed. 3. At the hearing, learned counsel for the petitioner submitted that the petitioner’s application for renewal of passport was rejected on the grou