A. K. BANERJEE, J.

( 1 ) WRIT petitioner was an employee of Durgapur Steel Plant. As per the service card his date of birth is September 15, 1942. In another place of the service card his date of birth was recorded as February 24, 1943. His Identity Card shows his date of birth as February 24, 1943 where as medical card shows that his year of birth is 1943. School certificate date September 25, 1970 produced by the writ petitioner to his employer shows his date of birth as 24th February, 1943. Writ petitioner was asked in the year 1975 (exact date is not supplied by any of the parties) to produce documents in support of his age. Accordingly, the school certificate was produced in the year 1975 which is not in dispute. The writ petitioner was superannuated from his service on the basis of his personal file where his date of birth was recorded as September 13, 1936. On an enquiry made by the Court, learned Advocate appearing for the respondent submitted that since at the time of joining, the writ petitioner could not furnish any documents in support of his age, the medical officer on the basis of an approximate recorded his age as stated hereinbefore. However, he admitted that there

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