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IN THE HIGH COURT FOR THE STATE OF TELANGANA AT HYDERABAD

THE HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE NAGESH BHEEMAPAKA

WRIT PETITION No.13008 of 2026

Dated:29.04.2026

Between:

Nomula Santhosh Reddy …Petitioner

AND

The Union of India, Represented by its Secretary,

Ministry of External Affairs, South Block, New Delhi & 2 others

…Respondents

ORDER:

This Writ Petition is filed seeking to declare the action of the

Respondents in not considering and not correcting the Date of Birth of the Petitioner from 18.03.1970 to 29.06.1975 in the passport records, and consequently not processing the application for issuance of a passport as illegal and seeks a direction to the respondents to correct the Date of Birth in the passport records

and issue the passport accordingly.

2. Heard Sri Venkata Rangadas Kanuri, learned counsel for the petitioner and Smt.N.V.R.Rajya Lakshmi, learned Standing

2

Counsel for the Central Government appearing for Respondent Nos.

1 to 3. Perused the record.

3. It is the case of the Petitioner that he was issued Passport bearing No.H9208350, wherein, due to an inadvertent clerical error at the time of issuance of the passport, his date of birth was wrongly recorded as 18.03.1970 ins