1. The petitioner has approached this Court seeking for correction of date of birth in the passport bearing No. F7487778. The case of the petitioner is that his actual date of birth is 30/5/1967, but the same is wrongly entered as 3-4-1965 in Ext.P1 passport. On coming to know about the mistake, the petitioner had filed Ext.P3 application dated 14/6/2013 before the 2nd respondent seeking to effect necessary corrections. In support of the case projected by the petitioner, Ext.P2 extract of the Admission Register issued by the school, where the petitioner had last attended for studies, was also produced. Since the same was not acted upon by the 2nd respondent, the petitioner is now before this Court for getting appropriate relief.

2. The learned Assistant Solicitor General appearing for the respondents submits that the petitioner had neither produced the SSLC Book, nor the Birth Certificate issued by the concerned authority so as to cause the correction of the date of birth in the passport. With reference to relevant circulars and also the verdict passed by this Court reported in Aboo v. Regional Transport Officer (2008 (1) KLT 992), the learned Counsel submits that the pe