Heard finally with the consent of the parties.

2. The Writ petition is filed by the Government of Tamil Nadu challenging the order passed by the State Administrative Tribunal(hereinafter referred to as the Tribunal) whereby the Tribunal had directed to treat the date of birth of the employee the first respondent herein as 16.7.1945 and not as 8.6.1943 which was the noted date. It is an admitted position that the first respondent joined the Government service before 1970 i.e., on 25.7.1968. He applied for correction of date of birth claiming that his date of birth was not 8.6.1943 as was noted initially, but it was 16.7.1945. The petitioner filed that application on 27.5.1978 claiming that his birth date should be changed. That application was not entertained. The petitioner had to approach the Tribunal ultimately because the Government refused to treat his date of birth to be 16.7.1945.

3. It is an admitted position that the petitioner joined the service on 25.7.68 as Junior Assistant. He was promoted as Tahsildar in the year 1998. He also worked as Election Tahsildar and at the relevant time he was working as Tahsildar, Ulundurpet. At this stage while working as Tahsilda