Learned Adv Ambhoj kumar Sinha has submitted before the Supreme Court that under the provisions of Passport Act, 1967 Passport can only be refused in the circumstances mentioned under section 6 of the Passport act.
A single-judge bench of Justice B.S. Walia, agreed to the girl’s counsel, that: “The Passport Manual merely contains guidelines, thus the same cannot be used to deny mentioning of correct particulars regarding the name of the petitioner’s biological mother in the passport.”