Supreme Court of India

State of M.P. & Ors. v. Premlal Shrivas

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Reported as [2011] 11 S.C.R. 444

Bench D.K. Jain and Asok Kumar Ganguly JJ.

Decided 19 September 2011

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What the Court ordered

We hold that in this fact situation the High Court ought D not to have directed the appellants to correct the date of birth of the respondent under Rule 84 of the said rules.

Judgment, page 14

From the headnote

Date of birth: c Correction of date of birth of a government servant entered in the service book at the time of entry into service - Jurisdiction of Tribunal and Court to direct the employer to make such correction - Held: Court or Tribunal has to be circumspect, cautious and careful while issuing direction for 0 correction of date of birth recorded in the service book - If a government servant makes a request for correction of the recorded date of birth after lapse of a long time of his induction into the service, particularly beyond the time fixed by his employer, he cannot claim, as a

Authorities it was built on

2005 Sta Te of Uttar Pradesh and Anr. v. Shiv Narain Upadhyaya cited by 8
1993 Union of India v. Harnam Singh cited by 5
1993 The Secretary and Commissioner, Home Department and Ors. v. R. Kirubakaran cited by 5
1997 Union of India v. C. Rama Swamy and Others cited by 3
1996 The Commissioner of Police, Bombay and Anr. v. Bhagwan V. Lahane cited by 2

Where later benches applied it

2021 Karnataka Rural Infrastructure Development Limited v. T.P. Nataraja & Ors. relied on
2025 Employer in Relation to Management of Katras Area of M/s Bharat Coking Coal Limited, Dhanbad v. Workman-shahdeo Das referred to
2024 The General Manager, M/s Barsua Iron Ore Mines v. The Vice President United Mines Mazdoor Union and Ors. referred to
2020 Bharat Coking Coal Ltd. & Ors. v. Shyam Kishore Singh referred to

Of those, 1 relied on · 3 referred to

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