Lost your PAN Card? What to do Next???

If you have lost your PAN card, you need to notify the police and get an FIR from your local police station. You also need to write a letter requesting the issue of a duplicate PAN card. The process is as follows:

The very first thing you need to launch FIR to the local police station that your PAN card been lost .(Now FIR is not compulsory, even person can go ahead without going for first step that is notification in police station and get an FIR, i checked and confirmed the same from my CA)

Secondly you need to write a request letter to the department (where you have applied for the PAN number), to issue a duplicate PAN card.
You can also contact Income Tax Department. The IT dept offers better guidance and better information. Contact concerned persons or to the different facilitation centers. Meet those who work on behalf of department and they will let you know the best possible ways to come out of the problem as well.
You can directly contact NSDL or TIN facilitation centre. They will provide you very imperative suggestion or solution for the problem.

How to apply for a Duplicate PAN Card?

An applicant can apply for a duplicate, also known as a replacement pan card if he had lost or misplaced his old pan card. He is also eligible to get a duplicate permanent account number card if his old pancard has deteriorated & need to be changed. There are other cases as well where the Income Tax Department of India would issue you a duplicate pan card.


The Process:
First step is to fill the correction or the change request form.
You can download that form from various websites, such as:
www.utitsl.co.in  
www.tin-nsdl.com
The Link is as follows: https://tin.tin.nsdl.com/pan/changerequest.html
You can also get the hard copy of the form from any of the nearest branches of UTITSL, NSDL or I T department.
Then start filling up the information mentioned on the form like your filled the form for your Permanent account number and other details. If you don’t remember your number then you just need to fill basic information like Date Of Birth, father’s name etc. Log on to the website https://incometaxindiaefiling.gov.in/knowpan/knowpan.jsp and the lost number will get displayed.or you get the information for this Link https://incometaxindiaefiling.gov.in/portal/knowpan.do


Generally the processing takes 15–20 working days to reach onto the foreign address but if you apply for duplicate it may take 5-6 working days only.

Refer this: Important information for persons making application for a new PAN card / corrections (Request for Reprint of PAN Card or/ And Changes Or Correction in PAN Data)

https://tin.tin.nsdl.com/pan/cr-do-donts.html