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Instructions
Caution:- A passport is issued under the Passports Act,1967.It is an offence knowingly to furnish false information or suppress information, which attracts penal and other action under relevant sections of the said Act. Passport is a valuable document. All holders are required to take due care that it does not get damaged, mutilated, lost. Passports should not be sent out to any country by post. Loss of passport should be immediately reported to the nearest Police Station and to the nearest Passport Office/ Indian Mission. Passport holder shall be responsible for misuse of the passport, due to non-intimation of loss to the concerned Passport Office/ Indian Mission. Passport is a Government property and should be surrendered when demanded in writing by any Passport Issuing Authority.