JUDGMENT

Suvir Sehgal, J. - Petitioner has approached this Court seeking writ in the nature of mandamus for directing the respondents to change/correct his date of birth in passport bearing No. A-2783428 (Annexure P-3) as per his birth certificate (Annexure P-8) and matriculation certificate (Annexure P-7).

2. In brief, the petitioner applied for a passport at Passport Sewa Kendra, Ludhiana on 03.08.2017 (Annexure P-l). He received an intimation on 20.09.2017 (Annexure P-2) that a passport already stood issued in his name on 13.03.1997. The petitioner inquired from his parents and got a copy of his passport (Anexure P-3) wherein his date of birth had been wrongly recorded as 12.03.1991. The said passport had already expired on 12.03.2007. After getting this information, petitioner again contacted the passport authorities on 29.09.2017 for renewal/re-issuance of a passport with a correction in his date of birth to 21.03.1991 instead of 12.03.1991. For this purpose, he submitted his birth certificate, matriculation certificate and other documents. He submitted representation dated 12.12.2017 (Annexure P-4) and pointed out that when the previous passport had been issued he was a minor c