Supreme Court of India

Punjab & Haryana High Court at Chandigarh v. Megh Raj Garg and Another

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Reported as [2010] 7 S.C.R. 172
Bench G.S. Singhvi and C.K. Prasad JJ.
Decided 20 May 2010

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What the Court ordered

We hold that the suit filed by respondent No.1 for correction of E the date of birth recorded in his service book after twelve years of his joining the service was clearly misconceived and the trial Court committed a serious error by passing a decree in favour of respondent No.1 and the lower appellate Court and the High Court repeated the same error by refusing to set aside the F decree passed by the trial Court.

Judgment, page 16

From the headnote

Service Law: c Punjab Civil Service Rules: Vol. I, Chapter II, Annexure- , Para I (as it stood prior to the 1994 amendment) - Correction of date of birth - HELD: In view of the statutory provision, there being a complete bar to the making of an application by a government servant after two years from the date of his entry into service, the High Court or the State Government did not have the power, jurisdiction or authority to entertain the representation made by the judicial officer concerned after more than twelve years of his entering into the service - Therefore, neither of them committed

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