JUDGMENT

Prateek Jalan, J. (Oral)

The proceedings in the matter have been conducted through video conferencing.

1. The petitioner has filed this writ petition for a direction upon the respondent No.1-Central Board of Secondary Education ["CBSE"] to correct her date of birth in her Class X and Class XII certificates.

2. The petitioner states that her date of birth was wrongly stated at the time of her admission into school as 01.04.1998, rather than her correct date of birth, which is 10.04.1998. The aforesaid error continued to be reflected in her school records and was also incorporated in her Class X and Class XII certificates issued by the CBSE in 2013 and 2015 respectively.

3. The petitioner has since graduated with a B.A. (Hons) in History degree from Lady Shri Ram College for Women, University of Delhi, and has completed her Master of Arts in Social Work (Dalit and Tribal Studies and Action) from Tata Institute of Social Science, Mumbai. She has now received a conditional offer of admission for an M.Phil. degree in Modern South Asian Studies from the University of Cambridge, United Kingdom, and has been selected for a Commonwealth Scholarship.

4. The difficulty which