Bhanwar Singh, President—The case called out. Sri S.K. Shukla, learned counsel for the respondent No.2/complainant is present.

2. None is present on behalf of the appellant and the respondent No.1.

3. As this appeal was filed way back in the year 2003 and obviously pretty old, we consider it appropriate to decide it on merit.

4. The issue in dispute pertains to the date of birth of the two sons of the respondent/complainant Sri Kailash Nath, who were admitted in Durga Model Higher Secondary School, Anand Nagar, Rawatpur, Kanpur Nagar. According to the respondent his son Sri Umesh Kumar was born on 10.5.1988 while his date of birth in the transfer certificate issued by the aforesaid school is mentioned as 10.7.1985. Likewise, the date of birth of the complainant’s other son Sri Chandresh Kumar was wrongly shown as 15.6.1987 instead of his correct date of birth 6.5.1989. Sri Kailash Nath filed his complaint praying for compensation of Rs.4,00,000 with the allegation that the wrong mentioning of dates resulted in the harassment of his two sons as they could not be admitted in the next class for which the transfer certificates were obtained. It was also alleged that alt