J&K mulls reducing police verification time

There is good news for passport seekers as the state government is contemplating reducing the police verification time for getting a passport. The delay in the police verification is touted as the major cause for the delay in issuance of passports in the conflict-hit region where hundreds of people have been blacklisted by the intelligence agencies and are not being issued passports. In Kashmir, getting a passport over the years has been painful as most of the passport seekers are stuck in getting police verification reports and it usually takes…

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