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Order Details: COPY OF JUDICIAL PROCEEDINGS
Pdf Text: CNR No. DLCT11-000200-2026
Misc. DJ ASJ No. 92/2026
FIR No. 05/2023
PS : Crime Branch
Tarun Verma Vs State
16.05.2026
This is an application for issuance of NOC for re-
issuance of passport and release of old passport, filed by
applicant/accused Tarun Verma.
Present : Dr. Shravan Kumar, Ld. Substitute Addl. PP for State.
Applicant/accused Tarun Verma (through VC).
Sh. Ritaj Kacker, Ld. Counsel for applicant/accused.
IO/ACP Jarnail Singh in person.
Heard. File perused.
Reply to the application under consideration is filed.
Copy supplied.
Arguments on the application heard. Reply perused.
Ld. Counsel for applicant/accused has submitted that the
applicant/accused was arrested in the present case FIR and thereafter,
was released on bail, vide order dated 25.03.2023 of the then Ld.
CMM, Tis Hazari Courts, Delhi. It is further submitted that in
compliance of said order dated 25.03.2023, the applicant/accused was
required to surrender his passport with the IO. It is further submitted
that the passport could not be deposited earlier due to inadvertent
delay and circumstances beyond the control of applicant/accused,
however, he had complied with the directions of the Hon’ble Court by
depositing the passport with the IO, vide letter dated 22.12.2025. It is
further submitted that the passport of the applicant/accused has
already expired on 15.07.2023, and thus, it needs to be reissued and
for which purpose, same is required to be produced before the
Passport Authority. Therefore, it is requested that No Objection
Certificate for re-issuance of passport of the applicant, may be given,
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and IO may be directed to release the seized passport to the
applicant/accused, for its re-issuance.
Ld. Substitute Addl. PP for State, on instructions of IO,
has opposed the application by submitting that the entire conduct of
applicant/accused was malafide in as much as he defied the directions
contained in order dated 25.03.2023, by not surrendering his passport
with the IO till 23.12.2025 and therefore, the application in hand may
be rejected.
In the reply filed by IO, it is mentioned that the
applicant/accused was directed to deposit his passport with the IO, and
also that the passport of applicant/accused has already expired
15.07.2023 and he had deposited his expired passport at ACB on
24.12.2025. It is further mentioned therein that in case Court is
inclined to permit the applicant/accused to get his passport reissued,
he may be directed to deposit fresh/new passport immediately.
On specific query of the Court, IO has informed that the
applicant/accused has duly joined the investigation as and when he
was called upon to do so. Moreover, it is nowhere the case of
prosecution that the applicant/accused has misused the concession of
bail at any point of time.
Having considered the overall facts and circumstances
of the present case, the reasons assigned in the application and the
discussion made herein above, the application of applicant/accused
namely Tarun Verma is allowed with the following directions :
1. That the Court has no objection in case Passport
Authority proposes to reissue passport to the
applicant/accused namely Tarun Verma S/o Sh.Ram
Parkash Verma, subject to fulfillment of all necessary
formalities as per the applicable rules and mere
pendency of this case shall not operate as bar for
Passport Authority to consider the application, if so
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moved, of applicant/accused for re-issuance of
passport to him;
2. That in order to enable the applicant/accused to
apply for re-issuance of passport, the IO shall release
his expired passport, after retaining its coloured copy
on record, to him within one week from date of this
order;
3. That on receipt of said passport, the
applicant/accused shall at the earliest, but not later
than within two weeks from the date of release of his
expired passport, apply for re-issuance of passport
within the concerned Authority, under written
intimation to the IO;
4. That on receipt of fresh/new passport by the
applicant/accused, he shall deposit his old passport,
as also the fresh/new passport, to the IO within two
weeks from the date of its re-issuance by the
Passport Authority;
5. That the applicant/accused shall submit compliance
report in the form of his affidavit, before the Court
immediately; and
6. That it is hereby made clear that the Court has not
granted any permission to applicant/accused to travel
abroad, in any manner.
The application in hand stands disposed off in the
aforesaid terms.
Copy of order be given dasti to the applicant/accused
and IO for necessary compliance.
(Vidya Prakash)
Special Judge, PC Act (ACB)-01
RACC, New Delhi.
16.05.2026(a)
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