This petition has been preferred by an organisation called The State Council of Educational Research and Training (SCERT) Employees' Organisation, represented by its President, Vice President, General Secretary, and Assistant General Secretary in the form of public interest litigation with a prayer for quashing the impugned order dated 1.4.96 (Annexure 5).

2. The facts of the present case is somewhat peculiar, and may be recited briefly. The dispute involved in this writ petition is with regard to the correction of the date of birth in the Service Book of respondent No. 5. Respondent No. 5 entered in Government service on 1.3.1956 as Head Pandit. Thereafter, he was appointed as Theory Instructor on 7.7.1961. The first volume of the Service Book of the respondent No.5 was opened on 17.10.1962. The date of birth recorded in the first volume of the Service Book opened on 17.10.1962 is 1.3.1938. Respondent No.5 signed his volume I Service Book on 17.10.1962, counter signed by the Deputy Director of Education, Manipur. Respondent No.5 also put the thumb impressions of fingers in the first volume of the Service Book. Every page of volume I of the Service Book bears the signature of respon

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