Rajamannar, C.J.-This is an appeal against an order of Panchapakesa Ayyar, J. on an application made by the Respondent under section 45 of the Specific Relief Act for the issue of a mandate to the Director of Public Instruction, Madras, to carry out a correction of the entry in the S.S.L.C. book of his date of birth, so as to make it read as 26th October, 1931 instead of 8th March, 1930. The allegations by the respondent in the affidavit filed by him in support of his application were that he passed his S.S.L.C. examination in March, 1948 and subsequently became a graduate of the Madras University, that he recently noticed that his date of birth had been wrongly entered in his S.S.L.C. book as 8th March, 1930, that this was due to a pure slip and mistake, that he was filing a certified copy of his date of birth and that the Tahsildar had made the necessary correction in his records. He stated that in reply to a communication to the Director of Public Instruction to make the correction he received a reply directing him to secure an order to that effect from a competent civil Court. On behalf of the Director of Public. Instruction, the Superintendent in the office filed a counter-aff

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