The Delhi High Court has ruled that passport authorities cannot insist upon mentioning the name of an applicant's father in the travel document.
"There is no legal requirement for insisting upon the father's name in the passport," Justice Sanjeev Sachdeva observed yesterday while referring to an earlier judgement passed by the court in May this year.
The court said this while dealing with a petition filed by a youth, whose request for renewal of passport was rejected by a Regional Passport Office in Delhi for not mentioning the name of his biological father. The authorities had also cancelled his earlier passport which was valid till June 2017.
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