IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB & HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH CWP. No. 18039 of 2010 Date of Decision: 5.10.2010. Puran Singh --Petitioner Versus State of Haryana and others --Respondents CORAM:- HON'BLE MR.JUSTICE PERMOD KOHLI. Present:- Mr. Umesh Narang, Advocate for the petitioner. *** PERMOD KOHLI.J (ORAL) The petitioner seeks to challenge the order dated 3.2.2010 passed by the Financial Commissioner & Principal Secretary to Govt. Haryana, Cooperation Department, whereby the decree of the civil court for correction of the date of birth of respondent no.4 has been accepted and consequently the date of birth of the said respondent has been rectified in the service record. It is stated on behalf of the petitioner that the petitioner is next in the line of promotion and thus the correction of date of birth of the private respondent has adversely effected the rights of the petitioner. From the impugned order it appears that a suit was filed in the civil court for rectification of a clerical error in the matriculation certificate. The civil court on consideration of the evidence before it passed a decree that there was an inadvertent clerical error in recording the date of birth of the private respondent in the matriculation certificate. It is held that instead of recording 2.12.1955 the date of birth has been wrongly recorded as 2.12.1952. The civil court has arrived at this conclusion on the basis of the school record of the private respondent. This judgement has been considered by the employer and the findings have been accepted, CWP. No. 18039 of 2010 -2- resultantly, the date of birth of the private respondent has been rectified. I do not understand how the petitioner has a locus to challenge the impugned order. The petitioner is incidentally effected by the change of date of birth of the private respondent. There is no direct conflict between the rights of the petitioner and the private respondents. I do not find any valid ground to interfere in the impugned order. No merit, petition dismissed. (PERMOD KOHLI) JUDGE 5.10.2010. lucky