JUDGMENT :

Petitioner is a B.Sc. Nursing graduate, who proposes to work abroad and claims to have received several offer letters from various reputed hospitals. She holds an Indian Passport bearing No.T5329697. However, it was noticed that petitioner's date of birth and her father's name were wrongly entered in the passport. The date of birth is shown as 03.05.1987' while her father's name is shown as 'Sebastian'. According to the petitioner, the date of birth ought to have been 23.05.1986' while her father's name ought to have been 'Devasia'.

2. Petitioner asserts that when she downloaded the birth certificate recently, she noticed that her father's name is mistakenly shown as 'Devasia' instead of 'Sebastian'. On realizing the mistake, petitioner verified the other documents she decided to correct the mistake even though her father had expired. Petitioner sought correction of her Matriculation Certificate. By Ext.P4, the Joint Commissioner for Government Examinations, Thiruvananthapuram after verifying the records, corrected the name of the petitioner's father from 'Sebastian' to 'Devasia. All the records now produced by the petitioner show that petitioner's father's name is 'Devasi