1. In this writ application prayer made by the petitioner is to quash the communication dated 29th May, 2001 (Annexure-9) whereby the petitioner has been informed that the Police Headquarters by its Memo No. 172 dated 22.1.2000 has rejected the prayer for correction of date of birth. His further prayer is to issue a writ in the nature of mandamus commanding the respondents to change his date of birth from 1943 to 3.7.1947 in the service book.

2. Bereft of unnecessary details, facts giving rise to the present application are that the petitioner was initially appointed as Constable on 1.2.1968 in B.M.P.X. and in the service book his year of birth has been mentioned as 1943, as also 25 years of age on 19.1.68. Said service book (Annexure-C) contains the signature of the petitioner. Petitioner later on was posted as Literate Constable by Force Order No. 154/86. He was promoted to the rank of Writer Havildar in the year 1996. In the year 1998 a gradation list of the Literate Constables in the Bihar Military Police was published and in that the date of birth of the petitioner has been shown as 1943 and the date of appointment as 1.2.1960. Petitioner filed application on 31.8.1998