IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE, ANDHRA PRADESH AT HYDERABAD (Special Original Jurisdiction) THURSDAY, THE SEVENTEENTH DAY OF APRIL TWO THOUSAND AND EIGHT PRESENT THE HON'BLE SRI JUSTICE NOOTY RAMAMOHANA RAO WRIT PETITION No : 8418 of 2008 Between: Mohammed Shafi S/o.Imam R/o.H.No.2-1-253, Weekly Bazar, Jagityal Karimnagar District ..... PETITIONER AND The Regional Passport officer, Ministry of External Affairs Government of India., Beside Prashanth Theatre Secunderabad .....RESPONDENT Petition under Article 226 of the constitution of India praying that in the circumstances stated in the Affidavit filed herein the High Court will be pleased to issue appropriate writ order or direction more particularly one in the nature of writ of mandamus declaring the action of the respondent in not considering petitioner application dated 7.2.2008 and correcting the date of birth in the passport bearing No.Z 1276978 in accordance with the SSC Certificate/Memo issued by the Board of Secondary Education, AP, Hyderabad as illegal, arbitrary, whimsical violative of Article 14 & 16 of Constitution of India and consequently direct the respondent to consider petitioner application and to correct the date of birth of the petitioner as 5.5.1982 instead of 5.5.1979 in the passport bearing No.Z 1276978 in the interest of justice. Counsel for the Petitioner : Sri T.Chandra Sekhar Rao Counsel for the Respondent No.: . The Court made the following O R D E R: 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 05.05.1982 instead of 05.05.1979 in the passport bearing No.Z-1276978. Heard Sri T. Chandra Sekhar Rao, learned counsel for the petitioner. In support of his claim, the petitioner had, in fact, enclosed a copy of the certificate issued by the Board of Secondary Education, Andhra Pradesh, wherein the date of birth of the petitioner has been recorded as 05.05.1982. It appears as though that by sheer inadvertence, the entry relating to his date of birth in his passport bearing No. Z- 1276978 has been recorded as 05.05.1979 instead of 05.05.1982. 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 05.05.1979 to 05.05.1982 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. ---------------------------------- Nooty Ramamohana Rao, J 17th April 2008 ksld ..... REGISTRAR // TRUE COPY // SECTION OFFICER To 1.2CCs to 2.2CD copies Form-NIC-OGS/WP{TRK}