ORDER

S.B. SINHA, J. - The V.P. High School and Intermediate Education Board, Allahabad is before us questioning a judgment and order dated 20 - 5 - 1999 passed by the Division Bench of the Allahabad High Court dismissing the special appeal filed by the appellants herein against a judgment and order dated 14 - 10 - 1998 passed by the learned Single Judge of the Allahabad High Court in Civil Misc. Writ Petition No. 33278 of 1998.

2. The respondent was Principal in a college known as C.N.I. Boys Inter College Dehradun. In his matriculation certificate granted by the appellants his date of birth was recorded as 25 - 6 - 1938. In the year 1994 a writ petition being Writ Petition No. 12027 of 1994 was filed praying for issuance of a writ of or in the nature of mandamus directing the appellants to alter his date of birth to 17 - 8 - 1940. The said writ petition was disposed of by a judgment and order dated 29 - 2 - 1996 directing the Board to pass an appropriate order thereupon. Pursuant to and in furtherance of the said direction, an application filed by the respondent herein for alteration of his date of birth in the certificate granted by the Board, was rejected. Another writ petitio