WP(C) 2929/2010 BEFORE HON’BLE MR JUSTICE B.K. SHARMA.. Heard Mr. C. Baruah, learned senior counsel assisted by Mr. B.C. Choudhu ry, learned counsel for the petitioner. Also heard Ms R. Chakraborty, learned Ad dl. Sr. Govt. Advocate appearing for the Respondent No.1. I have also heard Mr. A.K. Goswami, learned senior counsel and Standing Counsel, Karbi Anglong Autonom ous Council assisted by Mr. S. Banik, learned counsel for the respondents. The petitioner, who has since retired from service on attaining the age of superannuation with effect from 1.5.2010, has filed this writ petition for a direction to the respondents to correct his date of birth recorded in the Servic e Book. In the Service Book, the date of birth of the petitioner had been record ed as 1950. Now, the petitioner wants to change the same to 1954. As per own ad mission of the petitioner, he for the first time made representation for correct ion of his date of birth in the year 2005. According to the learned counsel for the petitioner, the petitioner joined the service in the year 1969. Thus, if th e date of birth as contended by the petitioner is to be accepted as 1954, he was only 15 years of age at the time of entry into the service and thus, could not have been eligible for a Government job. Now, by filing the instant writ petition, the petitioner wants to get mo re years of service on the basis of his claim that his date of birth is 1954 ins tead of 1950. Apart from delay in raising ‘the plea, the petitioner also could n ot have been eligible for a Government job in 1969. As per the new date of birth now claimed by the petitioner, he would have been 15 years of age in 1969, when he entered into the service of the respondents. As regards the claim for change of date of birth, the law is well settle d that such claim should have made at the earliest opportunity. The petitioner after entering into the service of the respondents wayback in 1969,for the first time raised the grievance in 2005. Thus, in both counts of delay and latches on the part of the petitioner and also in view of the fact that he could not hav e been eligible for a Government job in 1969, if his date of birth is accepted as 1954. Thus, the claim of the petitioner cannot be accepted. Consequently, the writ petition is dismissed.