Lost passport

Please advise to your client that let her  inform to her husband about police complaint for keeping passport without her permission. If he returns, it is all right. Otherwise she can give police complaint. 

If the husband is reluctantly refusing to give back her passport, she may issue a notice to him demanding the same, if this fails to invoke any response, she may lodge a complaint against him in the local police station to intervene and retrieve the same, after that also, if the situation continues, further legal action by police by registering FIR and taking action as envisaged in  law will fetch you relief and remedy.

File a complaint in the police about the missing of your passport and collect copy from them. Reapply for passport in passport Office. No use of asking passport from your husband it is wast of time. Otherwise at the time of settle put an objection to give your passport back.