Supreme Court of India
State of Punjab and Ors. v. S.L. Chadha
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In view of the aforesaid, the inevitable co!lclusion is that the High Court was not justified in interfering with the orders of the Government and G directing correction of the date of birth in the service records of the respondent as now claimed by him.
Judgment, page 8
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Service Law-Date of birth-Change in-Permissibility of-Delay in applying for-Effect of-Employee applying for change in date of birth several years after appointment-No contemporaneous document produced-Held, change not permissible. The respondent joined service under the State Government in 1983. His date of birth as per the Higher Secondary certificate was 19.6.1944 and in his service book too the date of birth was recorded as 19.6.1944. In 1995 he applied for change of his date of birth from 19.6.1944 to 13.12.1945 pursuant to a notification issued in 1994 by the State Government permitting
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