‘AUTHORITIES CAN’T INSIST ON FATHER’S NAME IN PASSPORT’

NEW DELHI: Passport authorities cannot insist upon mentioning the name of an applicant’s father in the travel document, the Delhi high court said on Monday. “There is no legal requirement for insisting upon the father’s name in the passport,” Justice Sanjeev Sachdeva said while referring to an earlier judgment 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 for not mentioning the name of his biological father.