IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE, ANDHRA PRADESH AT HYDERABAD (Special Original Jurisdiction) FRIDAY, THE ELEVENTH DAY OF APRIL TWO THOUSAND AND EIGHT PRESENT THE HON'BLE SRI JUSTICE NOOTY RAMAMOHANA RAO WRIT PETITION No : 7901 of 2008 Between: Damaraju Kavitha D/o.D.Venkateswara Rao R/o.10-2-9/17 Lane Behind SBI A.C Guards Hyd ..... PETITIONER AND 1 The Govt of India Ministry of Home Affairs Rep.by its Secretary New Delhi 2 The Regional Pass Port Officer Regional Pass Port Office Hyd Near Prashant Theatre, Sec-Bad .....RESPONDENTS 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 appropriate writ, or direction more preferably one in the nature of writ of Mandamus declaring the action of the 2nd respondent in not correcting the date of birth in the pass port of the petitioner as arbitrary illegal and unjust and consequently direct the 2nd respondent to correct the date of birth of the petitioner in the pass port as 15th August,1972 instead of 13th December 1975. Counsel for the Petitioner : Sri J. Kanakaiah 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 Officer to correct the entry relating to the date of birth of the petitioner as 15-08-1972 instead of 13-12-1975 in the passport bearing No. E 4782303. Heard Sri J. Kanakaiah, learned counsel for the petitioner. In support of her 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 15-08-1972. It appears as though that by sheer inadvertence, the entry relating to her date of birth in her passport bearing No. E 4782303, has been recorded as 13-12-1975 instead of 15- 08-1972. 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 respondents to receive the application of the petitioner for making the necessary correction of entries of the date of birth of the petitioner from 13-12 -1975 to 15-08-1972 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 11th April 2008 ksld ..... REGISTRAR // TRUE COPY // SECTION OFFICER To 1.2CCs to 2.2CD copies Form-NIC-OGS/WP{BMR}