Claim passport only travel document serious mistake and government should apologize: Justice Madan Lokur, former Supreme Court Judge, to Karan Thapar for The Wire.

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One of India’s most highly regarded former Judges of the Supreme Court, who is presently Chairperson of the United Nations Internal Justice Council, says that the statement made by the government that an Indian passport is “only a travel document” and not proof of citizenship is “a serious mistake” and the government should apologize or, at least, clarify that this was an error.

Justice Lokur points out that The Passports Act of 1967 repeatedly refers to passports and travel documents thus clearly indicating that passports and travel documents are not the same thing but two different entities. He says that “passports a ...