Over 1L invalid handwritten passports still in circulation
Two years after handwritten passports were declared invalid by the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), over a lakh of such Indian passports are still in circulation, according to officials. The government had stopped issuing handwritten passports in 2001, but over a lakh of them issued between 1997 and 2000 with a 20-year validity are still in circulation, officials said.