JUDGMENT

1. The corpus has been produced before us from the Child Care Institution at Churu by Shri Rai Singh, SI, PS Sardarshahar, Churuand Smt. Geeta, MFC, Belt No. 571. We conferred with her "in camera". The Child Welfare Committee has passed an order dated 16.12.2020 concluding that the date of birth of the corpus is 02.08.2005. However, there is available on the case diary, the record pertaining to the first admission of the corpus in the school named, Government School No.11, Sardarshahar which was subsequently merged into a school named, Government Tatia Higher Secondary School, Sardarshahar. As per the scholar register of the relevant period, the corpus was got admitted in the first standard of the said school on 14.07.2009 and her date of birth was recorded as 02.02.2003 at SI. No. 1662 of the scholar register. In the subsequent years, there is a shift in as much as the date of birth of the corpus has been altered to 02.08.2005. However, there is no material to satisfy us as to why this change in date of birth was made. Considering the fact that the entry pertaining to the initial admission of a child in the school has primacy and as by physical appearance also, the corpus