S.K.Katriar, J.

1. This writ petition has been preferred with the prayer to quash officer order No. 1815, dated 29.10.1996 (Annexure-6), whereby the date of birth of the petitioners late husband had been determined to be 26.1.1928, and for the consequential reliefs.

2. The petitioners husband, Ram Kishun Ram deceased, was appointed as a temporary Khalasi in the Quondam Rajya Transport, underthe Transport and Political Department, Government of Bihar, on 26.1.1953. The Bihar Government had constituted the Bihar State Road Transport Corporation in 1959, a public sector undertaking, to ply buses to carry passengers to different destinations in Bihar, and perhaps outside Bihar also. All employees of the aforesaid Rajya Transport including Ram Kishun Ram were automatically absorbed in the services of the Bihar State Road Transport Corporation (hereinafter referred to as the Corporation"), with effect from 1.4.1959. By letter dated 16.5.1978 (Annexure-A), the Corporation had informed Ram Kishun Ram that his service book had not till then been opened. He was, therefore, called upon to apprise the Corporation of his date of birth with the requisite proof. Ram Kishun Ram did not res