A court can direct a passport authority to correct a date of birth in a passport if appropriate documentation is provided.

JUDGMENT

The writ petition is filed with the following prayers.

“i) Issue a writ of mandamus or any other appropriate writ, order or direction, commanding the respondent to consider and pass appropriate orders on the petitioner’s application dated 15.10.2025 seeking correction of his date of birth in the passport, in accordance with law, within a time limit to be fixed by this Hon’ble Court.

ii) Issue a further writ of mandamus or any other appropriate writ, order or direction, commanding the respondent to correct the date of birth of the petitioner in the passport from 28.06.1964 to 02.02.1970, in accordance with the supporting documents produced as Exhibits P1 to P6.

iii) Grant such other and further reliefs as this Hon’ble Court may deem fit and proper in the facts and circumstances of the case.

iv) To dispense with the filing of the translation of vernacular documents.”

2. On 10.02.2026, this court had recorded the submission of the learned DSGI that the petitioner had not approached the Passport Authority concerned or produced the relevant documents.

3. Today, when the matter is taken up, it is submitted by both sides that the petitioner has since made a fresh application and the Passport Authority has directed him to produce certain documents for considering the application. This is recorded.

4. Accordingly, there will be a direction to the respondent to consider the application preferred by the petitioner for correction of the particulars, in accordance with law, within six weeks from the date of receipt of a copy of this judgment.

The writ petition is disposed of as above.