IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB & HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Civil Writ Petition No.7672 of 2010 Date of Decision : April 29, 2010. Jaswant Singh .....Petitioner versus State of Punjab and others .....Respondents CORAM : HON'BLE MR.JUSTICE SURYA KANT. Present : Mr.S.K.Rattan, Advocate, for the petitioner. -.- 1. Whether Reporters of Local papers may be allowed to see the judgment? 2. To be referred to the Reporters or not? 3. Whether the judgment should be reported in the Digest? --- Surya Kant, J. (Oral) The petitioner seeks a mandamus to direct the respondents to consider and dispose of his pending request regarding correction in his date of birth. According to the petitioner, he was born actually on 29.10.1953 and not on 29.3.1953, as erroneously recorded in his matriculation certificate and the service record. In this regard, the petitioner is said to have served the respondents with a legal notice dated 25.3.2010 (Annexure P-8) to which no response has been received by him so far. Having heard learned counsel for the petitioner, however, without expressing any views on the merits of the petitioner's claim, I deem it appropriate to dispose of this writ petition with a direction to C.W.P.No .7672 of 2010 2 respondent Nos.1 & 2 to take cognizance of the afore-stated legal notice served on behalf of the petitioner and dispose of his pending claim by passing a speaking order, preferably within a period of three months from the date of receiving a certified copy of this order. Ordered accordingly. Dasti. April 29, 2010 (SURYA KANT) Mohinder JUDGE