New Delhi: Delhi's Rouse Avenue Court has partially accepted former Congress president Rahul Gandhi's plea seeking a 'No Objection Certificate' (NOC) for issuing  a new passport. The court has given NOC to Rahul Gandhi for 3 years. Earlier, the court had reserved its verdict on the Rahul Gandhi passport case. After which the court passed the order at 1 pm. In fact, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi had filed a petition with the demand for NOC to get a new ordinary passport for a period of 10 years. This was opposed by senior BJP leader and former Union Minister Subramanian Swamy.  

According to the report, Swamy had filed a reply in a Delhi court saying that the applicant had no valid or effective reason to issue a passport for ten years. Swamy had told the court that there was no qualification in the application for issuing a passport for 10 years. The court can use discretion to grant permission. The court can exercise the discretion to grant permission to decide Rahul Gandhi's case in a wide range of areas of justice and law after examining and analysing other relevant matters.  

Swamy further said that at this stage the applicant (Rahul Gandhi) cannot have the NOC for more than one year and it can be reviewed annually or as deemed appropriate by this court. The BJP leader contended in the court that the right to have a passport, like all other fundamental rights, is not an absolute right and is subject to reasonable restrictions imposed by the government in the interest of national security, public order, morality and prevention of crime.  
 
On May 24, a Delhi court had asked BJP leader Subramanian Swamy to file his written submissions by Friday, May 26, while hearing a petition seeking a new passport filed by Congress leader Rahul Gandhi, accused of money laundering in the National Herald case. Rahul Gandhi had approached the court seeking no-objection certificate (NOC) to get a new 'ordinary passport' after surrendering his diplomatic travel documents after being disqualified as an MP. Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Vaibhav Mehta had said that the bail order did not impose any restriction on Rahul's travel and the court had rejected Swamy's request to ban his travel.

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