IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA CWJC No.5522 of 2008 RANJANA KUMARI, WIFE OF SUMANT KUMAR, RESIDENT OF VILLAGE THAWARA, P.S. BERIYA BERIYARPUR, DISTRICT BEGUSARAI. ------ PETITIONER Versus 1. THE STATE OF BIHAR. 2. THE BIHAR SCHOOL EXAMINATION BOARD THROUGH ITS SECRETARY, SINHA LIBRARY ROAD, P.S. KOTWALI, DISTRICT PATNA. 3. CHAIRMAN, BIHAR SCHOOL EXAMINATION BOARD, PATNA. 4. HEAD MASTER, MEGHRAM MISHRI PRASAD UCHYA VIDYALAYA, WALIPUR, DISTRICT LAKHISARAI. 5. DISTRICT EDUCATION OFFICER, MUNGER, DISTRICT MUNGER. 6. DISTRICT SUPERINTENDENT OF EDUCATION, MUNGER, DISTRICT MUNGER. ------- RESPONDENTS For the petitioner :- Mr. Sanjay Kumar Griyaghey, Advocate ----------- 2 13.5.2011 The petitioner is claiming that her date of birth in her matriculation certificate should be changed to 20.12.1974. The case of the petitioner is that at the time of entry in the middle school and high school, her date of birth was recorded as 20.12.1974. The petitioner also claims that when she stood for her matriculation examination, she filed an application before the District Superintendent of Education, Munger to change her date of birth as it has wrongly been recorded in the school registration register. However, no order was passed by the then District Education Officer. On perusal of the records it appears that the date on which the 2 petitioner had filed the application has not been annexed to the writ application. Obviously it must have been filed before she took her matriculation examination as it was only at that stage, that the District Education Officer could have been intervened in the matter. Annexure 3/1 is the matriculation certificate granted to the petitioner which indicates that her date of birth is 20.2.1970 and that she passed her examination in 1988. The petitioner relies heavily on Annexure-2 which is the admission register of Meghram Mishri Prasad Primary School. In the said register it appears that the date of birth had been first mentioned as 20.2.1968 which has then been corrected as 20.2.1974 by cutting. Learned counsel appearing on behalf of the Bihar School Examination Board on the other hand submits that the documents such as forms etc. relating to the year 1988 are not preserved by the Bihar School Examination Board as per rules of the Board over such long period of time. It is further submitted that the petitioner has moved this Court for grant of relief after a 3 great delay of 20 years, for which there is no explanation. Considering the entire pleadings of the facts, this Court finds that there is no authentic document which would indicate that the petitioner’s date of birth was 20.12.1974. This Court also finds that the petitioner has approached this Court after a delay and the writ application is liable to be dismissed on this ground as well. In the result, this writ application is dismissed. Sanjay ( Sheema Ali Khan, J.)