There is no definition or clarity on what police verification is : states in report, released by Jana Mahiti of Janaagraha Janaagraha Centre for Citizenship and Democracy

Mohammed Chand Shaikh I Blog Post No. 157. I Date : 27.04.2016.

Jana Mahiti on Police Verification of Passport Applicants, was released in Bengaluru on Monday by Justice Santosh Hegde.

The report, was prepared with over two years of studies with a detailed analysis of reports of corruption procured from some online portal. 

 “Police verification which is mandatory for issuing passport is unscientific, ineffective and redundant. Dispensing with the police verification process could eliminate corruption in the police department dealing with the passport work,” stated in the report, 

The report stated that not only corruption can be eliminated if the Regional Passport Office (RPO) makes amendments to the Schedule III of Passport Act 1980 to dispense with the verification process, but it also can enhance its service by adopting a few additional steps, like obtaining information from multiple agencies, while issuing passports.