A citizen's passport renewal was stalled because his name had been deleted during a routine Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls, even though nothing in the Passports Act, 1967 links electoral roll status to passport eligibility. With reference to the constitutional principle most directly applicable here, which one of the following is correct?
AManeka Gandhi v. Union of India (1978) held that restrictions on personal liberty, including the right to travel, must be based on a fair, reasoned and independently justified application of the specific law authorising the restriction
BThe Representation of the People Act, 1950 explicitly empowers passport authorities to treat electoral roll deletions as automatic grounds for denying passport renewal
CManeka Gandhi v. Union of India (1978) held that the right to travel abroad is not covered under Article 21 and can be restricted by any executive order without judicial review
DThe Passports Act, 1967 mandates that all applicants first clear a cross-verification check against current electoral roll status before renewal can be processed
Tests precise recall of a landmark judgment's actual holding, resisting plausible-sounding reversed or fabricated versions of well-known case law.
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