The court established procedural directions for correcting factual discrepancies in personal identification records.

JUDGMENT

The writ petition is filed seeking a direction to respondents

2 and 3 to correct the date of birth of the petitioner as 31.05.1984 in Ext.P5 Aadhaar Card instead of 31.05.1982.

2. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that the date and month have been corrected, but the year has not yet corrected.

3. The respondents have filed a counter affidavit as follows:-

9. It is submitted that from the records available in UIDAI portal, it is seen that the Aadhaar Number Holder ("ANH") (Aadhaar No-xxxx-xxxx-2461) has already updated his DOB once (i.e, from 30.05.1982 to 31.05.1982) and he has exhausted the chances. As stated at para 4 (a) above, the Petitioner may visit any of the enrolment centers and change DOB from 31.05.1982 to 31.05.1984 with the assistance of the operator and/or supervisor by providing birth certificate issued by authorized authority (from the respective state) under the Registration of Births and Deaths act, 1969 read with the Registration of Birth and Death Rules 1999/2000/2002 of respective states along with the self-declaration form. As per the process a rejection message will be received by the petitioner and the Petitioner is requested to send email to helpdesk-sokl@uidai.net.in and request for exception processing of DOB update by providing the EID/SRN number. The ANH has been informed by UIDAI State Office Thiruvananthapuram regarding the same. Further, the details mentioned herein are from information available from the writ petition.

The above statements are recorded.

4. In view of the above, the petitioner is directed to comply with the procedure mentioned above. On the petitioner complying with the same, the 2^nd respondent will pass such orders as are required under law, without delay.

The Writ petition is disposed of as above.