IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA CWJC No.869 of 2010 SHOBHA DEVI Versus THE STATE OF BIHAR & ORS ----------- 4 09.11.2010 The petitioner joined service in the Health Department of the State in the year 28.10.1970. At the time of joining the service book was open etc. In which her date of birth was recorded as 5.1.1950. Petitioner is aggrieved by the letter issued by the Superintendent, Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College & Hosiptal Bhagalpur dated 15.10.2008 by which she has been informed that as per the entry in the service book ,she would superannuate on 31.1.2010, she alleges that she represented the authorities that her entry of the date of birth in the service book as 5.1.1950 was wrong and it should be 5.1.1951. In support thereof she relies on her date of birth, as noted in her training for A.N.M. Sadar Hospital, Bhagalpur as also the certificate of passing an examination being Upadhya Examination from Mandar Vidyapeeth, Bhagalpur. She also stated that she come to know about the wrong entry in the service book in the year 2001 when she first presented for correction. It is thus submitted that petitioner has wrongly been made to superannuate on 31.1.2010 , instead of 31.1 2011. A counter affidavit has been filed in which the copy of service book of the petitioner is annexed there. In the service book both in numeric and in words ,the date of birth, is recorded, as 5.1.1950 and the service book has been opened in 1975 which 2 bears the signature of the petitioner . It is further stated that in the counter affidavit that she has been duly superannuated and her retiral benefits have already been calculated and have been sanctioned for payment. Having heard the parties and with their consent, the writ petition is being disposed of. In my view, the petitioner having disclosed her date of birth as 5.1.1950 at the time of entering in the service and got it entered in her service book and was within her knowledge as she had signed the entry in the service book as well. It is too late in the day, after more than 30 years, she gets the same changed. .Petitioner relies on the A.N.M. application or for that matter the Upadhya Certificate cannot be taken as evidence in asmuchas these are the documents which came into existence long after the service book entry. Subsequent entries cannot be taken into account to correct the earlier age. It is normally the other way around. The petitioner having lived through out the career with entry of her date of birth as 5.1.1950 as per service book, must retire as per service book. Thus, I find no illegality in the impugned order. The writ petition merits no consideration and it is accordingly dismissed. Namita ( Navaniti Prasad Singh, J.)