The above writ petitions were heard together, since it dealt with the common question of correction of date of birth in Passports, as per Circular No.VI/401/2/5/2001 dated 18.04.2001 as amended on 29.10.2007 and 15.01.2008.

2. The petitioners in these cases are unable to speak of the actual date of issuance of the Passport. The respondent-Passport Issuing Authority [for brevity "PIA"] also does not have any records relating to the time of issuance of the Passport, since all the Passports have been issued twenty years back. Admittedly the Passports were renewed more than once. All the petitioners require change in the date of birth as originally entered in the Passport. They now assert a different date of birth as against that disclosed in the Passport on the basis of their Secondary School Leaving Certificate [for brevity "SSLC"], Transfer Registers issued by the School, Aadhar Card, Election Identity Card and so on and so forth; either one or more of them. The petitioner in W.P.(C).No.14538 of 2015 alone relies on a Birth Certificate issued by the Registrar of Births and Deaths, which is said to have been issued in the year 2012. The petitioners also does not speak of any