IN THE HIGH COURT OF JAMMU AND KASHMIR AT SRINAGAR Reserved on:23.12.2020 Pronounced on:31.12.2020 WP(C) No.3628/2019 Mohammad Amin Bhat ...Petitioner(s)

Through: - Mr. M. Ashraf Wani, Advocate.

Vs.

J&K Board of School Education & Ors. …Respondent(s)

Through: - Mr. M. I. Dar, Advocate, CORAM:

HON‟BLE MR. JUSTICE SANJEEV KUMAR, JUDGE.

JUDGMENT

1) The short grievance projected by the petitioner in this petition is that his actual date of birth reflected in the school records is 28^th of March, 1963 but due to clerical error, has been carried as 5^th of April, 1961 in the qualification certificates issued by the J&K Board of School Education, the respondent No.1. He claims that he moved a formal application for correction of his date of birth from 5^th of April, 1961 to 28^th of March, 1963 in the year 2009 and a Correction Committee constituted by the respondents considered his case in a meeting held on 29^th of September, 2009, and rejected the same on the ground that no variation was found between the school and Board records. This was conveyed to the petitioner by the Assistant Secretary of the Board vide his No.F1415(Certs-corr-1)B/2009/Item No.15/IV dated 25.10.2009.

2) It is claimed that su