The Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court has set aside a bail condition requiring an accused to surrender his passport, observing that trial courts do not have the power to impound passports. Justice P. Dhanabal held that the Passports Act is a special law that prevails over general laws like the Code of Criminal
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