THE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE L.NARASIMHA REDDY WRIT PETITION No.2477 of 2011 ORDER: The petitioner was issued passport in the year 2005. The date of birth was mentioned as 05.03.1992. According to the petitioner, his actual date of birth is 05.08.1991 as per the S.S.C. certificate and inadvertently it was mentioned as 05.03.1992 in the passport. He made an application to the respondent with a request to correct the date of birth in the passport. This writ petition is filed seeking a direction to the respondent to pass orders on his application. Heard the learned counsel for the petitioner and the learned counsel for the respondent. The Ministry of External Affairs, Government of India issued circulars from time to time in relation to correction of date of birth or other corrections in the passports. The circular dated 29.10.2007 covers the controversy in this writ petition. According to Clause ( c) of the circular, the correction as to the date of birth can be entertained in case it is not more than two years and that the request can be acceded to if satisfactory explanation with reference to documents is provided. It is needless to mention that the S.C.C. certificate happens to be a basic document in relation to the date of birth. Hence, the writ petition is disposed of directing the respondent to pass appropriate orders as provided for under circular dated 29.10.2007 on the application of the petitioner within a period of two weeks from the date of receipt of a copy of this order. L.NARASIMHA REDDY,J Dt. 08.02.2011 lvl THE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE L.NARASIMHA REDDY W.P.No.2477 of 2011 Dt. 08.02.2011