IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE, ANDHRA PRADESH AT HYDERABAD (Special Original Jurisdiction) FRIDAY, THE EIGHTEENTH DAY OF APRIL TWO THOUSAND AND EIGHT PRESENT THE HON'BLE MR JUSTICE NOOTY RAMAMOHANA RAO WRIT PETITION NO : 8448 of 2008 Between: Polamaina Mahender, S/o. Polamaina Mallaiah, R/o.H.No. 2-3-721/A/1/B, Ganga Nagar, Amberpet, Hyderabad. ..... PETITIONER AND The Regional Passport Officer, Office of the Regional Passport Office, Near Prashant Theatre, Kummarguda, 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 an order or writ, particularly writ in the nature of mandamus declaring the action of the respondent officials in not receiving the application of the petitioner dt. 10th April, 2008 for correcting the date of birth as 28-8-1979 with that of wrong mentioned date of birth as 28-8-1975 as in the existing passport bearing No. G 5484097, valid from 28-9-1975 to 27-09-2017 and refusing to issue fresh passport by correcting the wrong date of birth by asking the petitioner to bring Decree from the competent Civil Court of Law as arbitrary, illegal, against the principles of existing law, circulars and pass Counsel for the Petitioner: MR.BAJRANG SINGH THAKUR Counsel for the Respondent No.: . The Court at the stage of admission 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 28-08-1979 instead of 28-08- 1975 in the passport bearing No. G 5484097. Heard Sri Bajrang Singh Thakur, 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 28-08-1979. It appears as though that by sheer inadvertence, the entry relating to his date of birth in his passport bearing No. G 5484097 has been recorded as 28-08-1975 instead of 28-08-1979. 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 28-08-1975 to 28-08-1979 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 18th April 2008 ks ..... REGISTRAR // TRUE COPY // SECTION OFFICER To 1. The Regional Passport Officer, Office of the Regional Passport Office, Near Prashant Theatre, Kummarguda, Secunderabad. 2. 2CD copies