The High Court of Judicature at Allahabad, Lucknow Bench, has ruled that a Magistrate before whom a criminal case is pending after cognizance is the competent authority to decide an application for a passport ‘No Objection Certificate’ (NOC). The Court held this applies even if the offences alleged in the charge-sheet are exclusively triable by
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