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IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT

CHANDIGARH

CWP No.26378 of 2018

DATE OF DECISION : 22.03.2021

Amit Kumar

&..Petitioner

versus

Punjab School Education Board & Ors.

.....Respondents

CORAM:- HON'BLE MRS. JUSTICE ALKA SARIN

Present:

Mr. Subhash Kumar, Advocate for the petitioner

Mr. Eklavya Kumar, Advocate for respondent No.1

ALKA SARIN, J.:

Heard through video conferencing.

The present civil writ petition has been filed challenging the

order/letter dated 20.03.2018 (Annexure P-9) whereby the petitioner9s

request for change in his date of birth in school certificates has been

rejected and the fee deposited by him for this purpose has been forfeited.

The grievance of the petitioner is that though the birth

certificate of the petitioner (Annexure P-1) records his date of birth as

22.09.1987, the middle and matriculation certificates issued by respondent

No.1 (Annexures P-2 and P-3) record his date of birth as 22.09.1983. It is

contended that in 2017 the petitioner discovered that his date of birth was

wrongly mentioned as 22.09.1983 in the certificates Annexures P-2 an