KAMAL KANT DEWAN vs M/S MOHINDER SINGH AND SONS COMMISSION AGENT AND ANR

IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH (159) CRM-M-24286-2026 DATE OF DECISION: 04.05.2026 Kamal Kant Dewan ........Petitioner VERSUS M/s Mohinder Singh and Sons Commisison Agent and another .........Respondents CORAM HON’BLE MR. JUSTICE SUBHAS MEHLA Present Mr.Aditya Grover, Advocate, for the petitioner. *** SUBHAS MEHLA, J (ORAL) 1. Present petition has been filed under Section 582 of BNSS for directing learned trial Court for release of the passport bearing No. N6123231 issued on 30.12.2015, valid uptill 29.12.2025, surrendered in compliance of order dated 09.12.2022 (Annexure P-1), in complaint NACT No.404 of 2017 (Annexure P-2), under Sections 138, 141 and 142 of NI Act, 1881. 2. Learned counsel for the petitioner contends that a Co-ordinate Bench of this Court vide order dated 09.12.2022, passed in CRM-M-57541- 2022, titled ‘Kamal Kant Diwan versus M/s Mohinder Singh and Sons and another’, had directed the petitioner to surrender his passport before the learned trial Court and in compliance thereof, petitioner had surrendered his passport and now he requires the said passport for renewal purposes and requests that his passport be released and he undertakes that