IN THE HIGH COURT OF KERALA AT ERNAKULAM PRESENT : THE HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE J.B.KOSHY & THE HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE THOMAS P.JOSEPH TUESDAY, THE 18TH NOVEMBER 2008 / 27TH KARTHIKA 1930 WA.No. 2207 of 2008() ------------------------------ AGAINST THE JUDGEMENT/ORDER IN WPC.30568/2008 DATED 17/10/2008. .................... APPELLANT/PETITIONER ------------------------------------- O.GOPALAKRISHNAN, ORAVANCHALIL HOUSE, S.R.K. NAGAR, P.O.PALAPPURAM, OTTAPPALAM, PALAKKAD DISTRICT. BY ADV. SRI.T.G.RAJENDRAN RESPONDENTS/RESPONDENT ------------------------------------------- 1. STATE OF KERALA, REP. BY THE PRINCIPLE SECRETARY, FINANCE DEPARTMENT, SECRETARIAT, THIRUVANANTHAURAM. 2. THE EXECUTIVE, ENGINEER, IRRIGATION DIVISION, MALAMPUZHA. BY SR. GOVERNMENT PLEADER SRI.BENNY GERVACIS THIS WRIT APPEAL HAVING COME UP FOR ADMISSION ON 18/11/2008,THE COURT ON THE SAME DAY DELIVERED THE FOLLOWING: Rs/ J.B.KOSHY & THOMAS P. JOSEPH, JJ. ================================ W.A.No.2207 of 2008 =============================== Dated this the 18th day of November, 2008. J U D G M E N T KOSHY, J. Petitioner entered service as a Lower Division Clerk in the Technical Education Department on 8.12.1983. The petitioner's date of birth as per school records is 15.7.1954 and that was entered in the service records also. Petitioner submitted an application to the Government for correcting the date of birth on the basis of the extract of the birth register maintained in the Panchayath with a delay condonation petition. Even the date of birth entered in the Panchayath register was also not at the time of birth but on the basis of an affidavit and it is registered only in the year 1984 after he entered the service. Thereafter, the school records was corrected on 8.1.1998 and he applied for correction of the service records by Ext.P9, letter 22.2.1999. It was rejected in terms of the Government Order G.O.(P) 45/91/P&ARD dated 30.12.1991 by Ext.P10 order. The application itself was time barred. Thereafter, after 8 years W.A.No.2207 of 2008 2 Ext.P12, representation was filed. That was also rejected on account of delay as well as on the basis of subsequent circulars. It is well settled law that if there is mistake in the service register, it should be corrected immediately. Petitioner is educationally qualified and he could have filed an application for correcting the date of birth long before. He got several promotions after his entry in service. At the time of giving nomination for PF, Gratuity etc. also he has seen the date of birth entered in the register. But no steps were taken to correct the same in time. Hence he is not entitled for correction of his date of birth against the Government Orders after inordinate delay. We are not reiterating the reasonings of the learned Single Judge as we are agreeing with the same and hence we dismiss the appeal. J.B.KOSHY, JUDGE THOMAS P. JOSEPH, JUDGE bkn/-