Legal Question in Criminal Law in India

Re - passport renewal with a criminal case pending in India

Dear Sir/Madam,

I live in UK for the past 6 years. Since I refused to marry my maternal uncle's daughter, last year My uncle in India filed a false criminal defamation case on me stating that I spread lies about his daughter and the court also sent summon to me at my UK address. Now my Indian passport is expiring in another 4 months and I need to renew it. The passport officer at the Indian embassy in UK says that he cannot renew it since there is a criminal case on me in India. But I was not at all there in India on the date he had mentioned in his criminal case filing. If I dont get my passport renewed, I cannot continue my studies at UK [Iam halfway through my ph.d studies and will take another 3 years to complete my studies]. What is the proper procedure to get my passport renewed? My uncle has done this purely with the intention of harrassing me and my parents since I refused to marry his daughter. I cannot leave my studies at UK and go attend the court hearings in India, because as per my professors Ph.D research contract, I cannot take more than 1 week of vacation any given time. Please help me how to handle this situation and get my Indian passport renewed from UK itself.


Asked on 4/13/07, 4:20 pm

3 Answers from Attorneys
G. M. Gupta gmguptaandassociates

Re: Re - passport renewal with a criminal case pending in India

hire some lawyer here in india who may look after your case here and the things may sort out

i think things will be ok

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Answered on 4/14/07, 6:49 am
JUZER UDAIPURI M/S. UDAIPURI & COMPANY

Re: Re - passport renewal with a criminal case pending in India

I am in agreement with both my colleagues. However, you would be better off, contacting a solicitor in the U.K. to sort things out for you in that country. If you come to India, you uncle will not let you off the hook, and will ruin your career.

Better still, take advice of a good competent lawyer in the city where you live, and try to sort out the case by withdrawing it.

Will apologies to your egoistic uncle work ? Tender apologies, even if not real to him, to finish this matter, since there is no quick fix solution to this problem.

I sympathise with you, but I beleive an apology shuold do the trick.

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Answered on 4/22/07, 9:16 am
mrugank patnaik msnp

Re: Re - passport renewal with a criminal case pending in India

in your case ,you can approch high court in writ juridiction,to get speedy proper releif.

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Answered on 4/15/07, 11:33 am


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