Passport - employment details

1.    The penalty is now 5 K and or imprisonment of (1 previously now) 2 years in jail as per S. 12 of India Passport Act.

2.    Suggest her to voluntarily confess to giving false statement earlier and releif for its correction and also pray / seek leniency in fine / punishment from Passport Sewa Kendra nearest to her by way of an Applciation.

3.  Also check on her ECR / ECNR stamp as that status is missing from your brief !

Thanks Tajobsindia for the details. Penalty and imprisonment details are very scarying.

My mother is ready to confess voluntarily for giving wrong information. But my worry is , will there still be any legal prosecutions if she voluntarily confessess about suppressing information about her employment. Is there any way that we can protect against the legal implications, before requesting for re-issue of passport. Thanks again for your inputs.

On the ECR/ ECNR part - I am not sure on the status , I shall check and come back to you sir. 

1.    Chances are less but one never knows as there is no harm in trying this time as 3 years already spent in procrastinating about it.

Hey don't worry. She can get the NOC and go to passport office RPO and get it rectified

Thanks Priya. She is now retired and does she still require a NOC? Or would a Pension Payment Order suffice

she can produce her pension order book..and get it done in RPO, may i know which rpo it is??

I disagree with above discussion by Priya.

Had misconduct of your mother come to notice during service she could have been in trouble. Recent instructions call for provision of intimation to the department and not NOC.  Even NOC is obtained by Govt servants after applying.

It also implies that even the information given in passport application is wrong.

Now she is retired.

It is surprising that she was bold enough and did not hesitate to commit misconduct while in service and now she is worried.

I have to agree with Tjobsindia.  I do not know on what basis Priya said that "She can get the NOC" There is no provision for back date NOC for a retired employee.

There is also no provision for retired employee needing NOC for passport.

I didnt know she is retired.. she can get it sorted out.. i am there to help her.. this is not a big issue as everyday we face more issues that are bigger than this..

Hello Priya,

My father in law is in a similar situation. He got passport without NOC since his office was taking too long to provide him NOC and in hurry he got passport and got NOC few months later. Now, he wants to travel to USA. He has VISA already. His office is not allowing him to travel to USA and everybody in his office know it. How he can solve this issue. Please let me know in what way we can get legal help. Also, I would like to add that we thought about it and the passport website just says about 2500 rs penalty and nothing else like imprisonment (https://passport.gov.in/cpv/penalty.htm)

If he take appointment with passport seva, he suspect that they will fire him from his job, ask to pay penalty and will confisticate passport and will not provide passport for another 10 yrs and hold his pension forever. Someone in his office scared him with above. Please help us out.

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