IN THE HIGH COURT OF JHARKHAND AT RANCHI
RAJESH SHANKAR, J.
Rajesh Pradhan - Petitioner
Versus
The Union of India and Ors. - Respondents
W.P.(S) No. 2226 of 2019
Decided On : 16-05-2023
All India Services (Death-cum-Retirement Benefits) Rules, 1958 - Rule 16-A – Service Law - Posted as Deputy Inspector General of Police/Additional Police Commissioner - Entitled for a declaration his date of birth – Filed for issuance of direction – Decreed – Held, Court is of view that respondent–Union of India cannot deny petitioner’s request to correct his date of birth as instead in his service record particularly when a competent Court of civil jurisdiction has passed a declaratory decree in his favour to effect that his correct date of birth and same has been contested on merit by none other but Union of India – Competent authority of respondent–Union of India i.e. respondent No.2 is directed to correct date of birth of petitioner in his service record within two months from date of receipt/production of a copy of this order in terms with judgment and decree dated – Writ petition allowed.
JUDGMENT :
1. The present writ petition has been filed for issuance of direction upon the concerned respondents to insert the correct date of birth of the petitioner i.e. 29.12.1976 instead of 06.12.1975 in his service book in terms with the judgment and decree dated 09.10.2009 & 30.10.2009 respectively passed in Title Suit No. 125/2003 which was affirmed by the Appellate Court vide judgment and decree dated 16.04.2015.
2. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that the petitioner, during filing of the writ petition, was posted as the Deputy Inspector General of Police/Additional Police Commissioner, Mumbai. At the time of getting admission in Navodaya Vidyalaya, Masaria, Gumla, the petitioner’s date of birth was wrongly entered in the school record as 06.12.1975 whereas his correct date of birth was 29.12.1976. As soon as the said mistake came to the notice of the petitioner’s father, he executed an affidavit in the month of November, 1990 to the effect that the correct date of birth of his son was 29.12.1976 instead of 06.12.1975. Though a representation in this regard was also made to the Principal of the said school on 28.06.1996, yet no positive step was taken by the school administration in that regard. Thereafter, a writ petition being C.W.J.C No. 1932/97(R) was filed before the Patna High Court (Ranchi Bench) stating that the Principal of the said school had not considered the earlier representation filed by the petitioner and further submitting that he would file a fresh representation making out a case of correction of age. The said writ petition was disposed of on 14 .09.1998 directing the Principal of the school to dispose of the petitioner’s fresh representation for correction of his age within two months from the date of filing of the same. Pursuant to the said direction, the petitioner filed a representation, however, the concerned respondent did not comply the said order by disposing of the representation. Subsequently, the petitioner filed a contempt petition being M.J.C. No. 104/2001 before this Court against non-compliance of the order dated 14.09.1998 which was finally disposed of granting liberty to the petitioner to approach the competent Civil Court on that issue.
3. The petitioner thereafter filed a declaratory suit being Title Suit No. 125/2003 which was finally allowed in his favour vide judgment and decree dated 09.10.2009 & 30.10.2009 respectively passed by the Court of the Additional Munsif-I, Ranchi holding that he was entitled for a declaration that his date of birth was 29.12.1976 and not 06.12.1975. The petitioner thereafter filed a representation on 26.04.2010 before the Sr. Deputy Assistant (Establishment), Office of the Director General of Police, Mumbai, Maharashtra for correction of his date of birth upon which the said authority after making positive recommendation in terms with the judgment and decree passed in Title Suit No. 125/2003, referred it to the Additional Chief Secretary, Home Department, Government of Maharashtra, Mumbai vide letter dated 22.06.2010. In the meantime, aggrieved with the judgment and decree dated 09.10.2009 & 30.10.2009 respectively, the defendant/Union of India & others preferred an appeal being Title Appeal No. 54/10 before the Judicial Commissioner, XVII, Ranchi, however, the same was dismissed vide judgment and decree dated 16.04.2015 upholding the same.
4. The petitioner then filed Execution Case No. 07/2010(B) which was dismissed vide order dated 4.10.2018 observing that the said title suit was a declaratory one and hence it could not be executed. It is further submitted that during pendency of the suit before the Civil Court regarding correction in the petitioner’s date of birth, he was appointed as an Officer of Indian Police Service in Maharashtra Cadre in the year 2003 and his date of birth was entered in his service record as 06.12.1975 as per his academic record. The petitioner as well as his father tried for suitable correction in the date of bi
Union of India Vs. C. Rama Swamy & Ors. reported in (1997) 4 SCC 647
Satyawati Vs. Rajinder Singh & Anr. reported in (2013) 9 SCC 491
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