HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE NOOTY RAMAMOHANA RAO WRIT PETITION No.23645 of 2010 Date:27.9.2010 Between: Mohammed Sirajuddin. ……….Petitioner. And The Regional Passport Officer, Having office at Clock Towers, Near Prashant Talkies, Secunderabad. ………Respondent. HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE NOOTY RAMAMOHANA RAO WRIT PETITION No.23645 of 2010 ORDER: This writ petition has been instituted seeking directions to the respondent – Regional Passport Authority to correct the entry relating to the date of birth of the petitioner as 14.06.1970 instead of 16.06.1970 in the passport bearing No.E-5204397. Heard Sri Mohammed Zakir Hussain, learned counsel for the petitioner, Sri Ponnam Ashok Goud, learned Assistant Solicitor General and Sri S.M.D.Haneef, learned Standing Counsel for the Central Government. In support of his claim, the petitioner had, in fact, enclosed a copy of the birth certificate issued by the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation, wherein the date of birth of the petitioner has been recorded as 14.06.1970. It appears as though that by sheer inadvertence, the entry relating to his date of birth in his passport bearing No. E-5204397 has been recorded as 16.06.1970 instead of 14.06.1970. Such corrections being insignificant and inconsequential, they are required to be carried out upon being satisfied about the genuineness of the claim in that regard. In fact, this very question has been considered in great detail in WP No. 19376 of 2007. By the judgment rendered on 21.9.2007, this Court directed the respondents to receive the application of the petitioner for making the necessary correction of the entries of the date of birth of the petitioner. In the facts and circumstances stated above, I direct the respondent to receive the application of the petitioner for making the necessary correction of entries of the date of birth of the petitioner from 16.06.1970 to 14.06.1970 and issue the revised or corrected passport within a further period of 30 days from the date of receipt of this order. With this, the writ petition stands disposed of at the stage of admission, but however, without costs. ___________________________ Justice Nooty Ramamohana Rao Date:27.9.2010. mrb