SHARAD VISHNU KHATU vs UNION OF INDIA MINISTRY OF EXTERNAL AFFAIRS

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Digitally signed by MULEY MULEY SHUBHAM SHUBHAM PRAVINRAO PRAVINRAO Date: 11-WP-4858-2024.DOCX 2025.10.15 17:25:21 +0530 Shubham IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY ORDINARY ORIGINAL CIVIL JURISDICTION WRIT PETITION NO. 4858 OF 2024 Sharad Vishnu Khatu ...Petitioner Versus Union of India Ministry of External Affairs & Ors. ...Respondents ______________________________________________________ Mr. Vaibhav Kadam a/w Shrinath Badade, Krupesh Bhosle and Rayyan Shah i/by Sameer Parkar for the Petitioner. Mr. D. P. Singh for Respondent No.1. Mr. Vishal Thadhani, Addl.GP for Respondent No.3. ______________________________________________________ CORAM : M.S. Sonak & Advait M. Sethna, JJ. DATED : 14 October 2025 Oral Order (Per M. S. Sonak, J.): - 1. Heard learned counsel for the parties. Rule. The Rule is made returnable immediately at the request and with the consent of learned counsel for the parties. 2. The Petitioner was a holder of passport number K7525857. The term of this passport expired on 28 October 2022. Therefore, the Petitioner, by his application dated 31 November 2022, applied for renewal/re-issuance of the passport. The passport authorities informed the Petitioner that online records show that a criminal case No.137984 of 1990 was pending against him at the Mata Ramabai Ambedkar Marg (MRA) Police Station, Mumbai. Page 1 of 5 11-WP-4858-2024.DOCX 3. The Petitioner, therefore, made inquiries at the police station and in the Court of learned Metropolitan Magistrate, Ballard Pier, Mumbai, to see whether any case is pending against the Petitioner. The Petitioner was informed that no such case is pending against him. 4. The Petitioner also filed under the RTI Act and was informed on 20 September 2024 that there is no case pending against the Petitioner. 5. The p