IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA CWJC No.3517 of 2011 Lalan Kumar, son of Sri Munni Yadav, resident of Barki Delha, P S – Delha, District - Gaya Versus 1. The State of Bihar. 2. The Principal Secretary, Human Resources Department, Govt. of Bihar, Patna. 3. The Chairman, Bihar School Examination Board, Patna. 4. The Secretary, Bihar School Examination Board, Patna. 5. The District Education Officer, Gaya, District – Gaya. 6. The Principal, Mahabir Inter College Gaya, District – Gaya. 7. The Principal, Govt. Middle School Delha, Gaya, District-Gaya. ----------- 04. 20.9.2011 Writ has been filed by the petitioner for a direction upon the Bihar School Examination Board to issue a certificate with correct date of birth of the petitioner which is said to be 20th February, 1980 instead of 20th January, 1980, which emerges from the mark-sheet issued by the Bihar School Examination Board after completion of matriculation examination by the petitioner in the year 1995. Contention of the petitioner is that he learnt about the mistake in the date of birth after he received the so-called original certificate from the school in 2007 and he immediately pointed this fact out to the respondent authorities but since they have refused to accept the claim of the petitioner, writ has been filed. Petitioner has tried to press into service at least two documents which are Annexures 2 and 3. In addition to that, there are some other annexures which indicate that the date of birth of the petitioner was 20th February, 1980 and not 20th 2 January, 1980. From a close perusal of Annexure-2 it is evident that in the so-called admission register annexed with the writ application, correction has been made under the signature of the Principal on 6.11.2007 but the District Education Officer has put his signature and date on 18.2.2010. This variance and infirmity has not been explained by the petitioner. Anneuxre-3 is supposed to be a duplicate but this duplicate document does not have the full signature and date of the issuing authority. Therefore, the authenticity of Annexure-3 is also doubtful. Counsel for the petitioner thereafter submits that under Right to Information Act he has obtained document which is the tabulation chart and the same has been annexed as Annexure-C to the counter affidavit. There also change in the date of birth has been recorded in pen. . Counsel representing the Bihar School Examination Board submits that this issue is being raised at a belated stage when examination was conducted in the year 1995 and the claim as such was raised in the year 2007, if at all, and writ has been filed in 2011. Besides the infirmity or variance in the records which has been noted above, it is also pointed out that there is variance in the date of the order when so-called correction was permitted and the date on which the correction was supposed to have been authorized. This also creates suspicion with regard to the authenticity of tabulation entry 3 which may be a pointer to some kind of interpolation, which has been done in the tabulation register. Since the Court is not convinced with regard to the authenticity of the documents which have been pressed into service to bring about change in the date of birth of the petitioner, the stand of the respondents that it is not permissible now after so many years is supported by at least a decision of this Court rendered in CWJC No. 869 of 2007(Annexure-A) which was affirmed in LPA No. 67 of 2009 (Anneuxre-A/1). In view of the abvoe there would be problem for this Court in giving a direction to correct the date of birth of the petitioner in the above stated circumstance. Writ has no merit. It is dismissed. rkp ( Ajay Kumar Tripathi, J.)