SSK/902 1 WP/1333.11 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY CIVIL APPELLATE JURISDICTION WRIT PETITION NO. 1333 OF 2011 Sushant Popat Patil ....Petitioner Versus The Union of India & Anr. ...Respondents Mr. M. S. Prasad, Advocate for the petitioner. Mrs. Neeta Masurka with Mr. S. R. Ganbawle, Advocates for Union of India. CORAM : SMT. RANJANA DESAI & RANJIT MORE, JJ. DATED : 10th JUNE, 2011. P.C.: It is the petitioner’s case that his birth-date is incorrectly mentioned in the passport. He wants the birth-date to be corrected by the passport authorities. Mrs. Masurkar, learned counsel who appears for the Union of India states that under Section 10 of the Passports Act, 1967, the petitioner can make an application to the passport authority. The passport authority will, then, conduct necessary enquiry and pass appropriate orders in accordance with law. SSK/902 2 WP/1333.11 2. Learned counsel for the petitioner states that the petitioner shall make an application to the passport authority within four weeks from today. Let such an application be made. If the application is made, the passport authority shall conduct the necessary enquiry and pass appropriate orders thereon in accordance with law. The petition is disposed of in the aforestated terms. (RANJIT MORE, J.) (SMT. RANJANA DESAI, J.)