Mumbai police commissioner Sanjay Pandey announced that citizens are no longer required to visit police stations for passport verification except in rare cases.

“We have decided no citizen will be called to police station in Mumbai except in exceptional cases of documents being incomplete etc. If not followed do report,” the police commissioner stated in a tweet on Saturday.

On the question of how would the process of police verification will complete, Pandey said that from now police constable would visit the house and complete the process required for the issue of passport.