The Petitioner, K. Michael Antony, was appointed as Post Graduate Assistant (Economics) on 7. 1980 in St.Joseph Higher Secondary School, Thiruthuapuram, Later, he was promote and appointed as Head Master with effect with from 6. 2000 in the fifth respondent school, under the same Management. It is brought to the notice of this Court that the petitioner has attained the age of superannuation on 35. 2003.

2. When the petitioner was serving as a Headmaster in the fifth respondent school, he having stumbled on Church records and other connected documents, came to know that his correct date of birth was 29. 1944 and not 20.1.1944. He approached the learned Judicial Magistrate, Eraniel, Kanyakumari District for necessary direction to the Registrar of Births and Death and got a birth Certificate under the Registration of Birth and Death Act, 1969 certifying his correct date of birth as 29. 1944.

3. The petitioner applied to the respondents 2 to 5 to carry out the correction of his date of birth in the Service Register as per the Birth Certificate. On the ground that the petitioner approached the fourth respondent after a lapse of five years from the date of joining service, th