THE HON’BLE THE CHIEF JUSTICE SHRI MADAN B. LOKUR AND THE HON’BLE SHRI JUSTICE GHULAM MOHAMMED WRIT APPEAL No. 584 OF 2011 DATED:17-11-2011 Between: V. Alwar … Appellant And The Singareni Collieries Company Limited, rep., by the Chairman-cum- Managing Director, Singareni Bhavan, Red Hills, Hyderabad and another … Respondents THE HON’BLE THE CHIEF JUSTICE SHRI MADAN B. LOKUR AND THE HON’BLE SHRI JUSTICE GHULAM MOHAMMED WRIT APPEAL No. 584 OF 2011 JUDGMENT: (per the Hon’ble the Chief Justice Shri Madan B. Lokur) 1. The appellant is aggrieved by an order, dated 16-06-2011 passed by a learned single Judge in Writ Petition No. 32207 of 2010. 2. The case involves a change in the date of birth. 3. When the appellant joined the services of the respondents as a Badli Pillar on compassionate grounds on 22-02-1983, his date of birth was recorded as 15-01-1951. At that time, the identity and service card, copy of the B-register and copy of the provident fund nomination form which were filled up indicated his age as 32 years as on 15-01-1983. 4. Just before his superannuation, the appellant applied for a change of date of birth on the basis of certain documents obtained by him. According to the appellant, his correct date of birth is 28-10-1954. 5. The learned single Judge did not accept the documents produced by the appellant in view of the fact that the documents that were in existence contemporaneous with the appointment of the appellant show his date of birth as 15-01-1951. 6. We are not inclined to interfere with the order passed by the learned single Judge and would much rather prefer to rely upon contemporaneous documents such as the identity and service card, copy of the B-register and copy of the provident fund nomination form which show the date of birth of the appellant as 15-01-1951, Writ Appeal No. 584 of 2011 Page 1 of 2 rather than the documents that came into existence 20 years later showing a different date of birth. 7. There is no merit in the appeal and it is accordingly dismissed. MADAN B. LOKUR, CJ GHULAM MOHAMMED, J 17-11-2011 ks Writ Appeal No. 584 of 2010 Page 2 of 2