IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE, ANDHRA PRADESH AT HYDERABAD (Special Original Jurisdiction) MONDAY, THE TWENTY FOURTH DAY OF MARCH TWO THOUSAND AND EIGHT PRESENT THE HON'BLE MR JUSTICE NOOTY RAMAMOHANA RAO WRIT PETITION NO : 5968 of 2008 Between: Malipeddi Sudheer Reddy S/o Sri M. Venkat Reddy R/o Seetharampuram Villge, Gundala Post, Aleru Mandal, nalgonda District. ..... PETITIONER AND 1 Government of India, rep by the Secretary, Ministry of Home Affirs, New Delhi. 2 Regional Passport Authority, rep by its Regional Passport Officer, Hyderabad. .....RESPONDENT(S) 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 a writ of Mandamus, or any other appropriate Writ, order or direction, directing the second Respondent to correct the date of Birth of the petitioner as 6.7.1981 instead of 6-7-1982 in the passport bearing No. E-1538196 as per the SSC Certificate and issue the passport with corrected date of birth and pass such other order or orders as may deem fit and proper in the circumstances of the case. Counsel for the Petitioner: MR.C.RAGHU Counsel for the Respondent No.: MR.A.RAJASHEKAR REDDY (ASST SOLICITOR GEN) The Court made the following ORDER : Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and Sri A.Rajasekhar Reddy, learned Senior Standing Counsel for the respondents. This writ petition has been instituted seeking directions to the 2nd respondent – Regional Passport Authority to correct the entry relating to the date of birth of the petitioner as 6.7.1981 instead of 6.7.1982 in the passport bearing No.E-1538196. In support of the claim of the petitioner, he 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 6.7.1981. It appears as though that by sheer inadvertence the entry relating to his date of birth in his passport bearing No. E-1538196, the same has been recorded as 6.7.1982 instead of 1981. Such corrections being insignificant and inconsequential corrections 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 the entries of the date of birth of the petitioner from 6.7.1982 to 6.7.1981 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. No costs. ------------------------------------------------------- JUSTICE NOOTY RAMAMOHANA RAO Dt : 24.3.2008 knk ..... REGISTRAR // TRUE COPY // SECTION OFFICER To 1.2CCs to 2.2CD copies Form-NIC-OGS/WP{TRT}