IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE, ANDHRA PRADESH AT HYDERABAD (Special Original Jurisdiction) THURSDAY, THE NINETEENTH DAY OF FEBRUARY TWO THOUSAND AND NINE PRESENT THE HON'BLE MR JUSTICE B.SESHASAYANA REDDY WRIT PETITION NO : 3202 of 2009 Between: B.Venkatanarayan Raju S/o.Subba Raju R/o.Govada village, Chodavaram Mandal Visakhapatnam District ..... PETITIONER AND The Chodavaram Co-operative Sugars Limited, No.1109 Govada village, Chodavaram Mandal, Visakhapatnam District rep.by its Managing Director .....RESPONDENT Petition under Article 226 of the Constitution of India praying that in the circumstances stated in the Affidavit filed herein the High Court may be pleased to issue an appropriate writ order or direction more particularly one in the nature of writ of mandamus declaring the in action of the respondent in not altering his date of birth in the office records as 2.6.1958 based on his SSC Certificate issued by the Board of Secondary Education, Andhra Pradesh, in spite of repeated requests made by him as the respondent as arbitrary, illegal, unjust failure to exercise power discriminatory violative of Fundamental Rights guaranteed under Articles 14,and 16 of the Constitution of India and consequently direct the respondent to carry out corrections in his service register rectifying the mistake regarding date of birth. Counsel for the Petitioner: MR.C.V.R.RUDRA PRASAD Counsel for the Respondent :MR. MD. RAHIMUDDIN The Court made the following : ORDER: The petitioner calls in question in this writ petition the inaction of the respondent in altering his date of birth in the office records as 02.06.1958 based on the S.S.C. certificate issued by the Board of Secondary Education, A.P., Hyderabad. 2. When the writ petition came up for admission hearing, Sri Md.Rahimuddin, learned Standing Counsel for the Chodavaram Co- op. Sugars Ltd., received notice on behalf of the respondent. 3. Heard learned counsel appearing for the petitioner and learned Standing Counsel appearing for the respondent. 4. Learned counsel appearing for the petitioner submits that pursuant to the Circular dated 27.11.2002 issued by the respondent, the petitioner submitted representation for correction of his date of birth in the office records based on the SSC certificate issued by the Board of Secondary Education, A.P., Hyderabad. His representation remained unattended and therefore, he approached this Court invoking the jurisdiction under Article 226 of the Constitution of India. 5. The factual aspect of the petitioner making representation along with the copy of the SSC certificate issued by the Board of Secondary Education, A.P., Hyderabad, is not contradicted by the learned Standing Counsel appearing for the respondent. 6. In that view of the matter, the writ petition is disposed of at the admission stage directing the respondent to consider the representation dated 10.10.2008 submitted by the petitioner and pass appropriate orders within four weeks from the date of receipt of a copy of this order and communicate the same to the petitioner. No costs. ______________________ B.SESHASAYANA REDDY, J. Date:19th February, 2009. cs ..... REGISTRAR // TRUE COPY // SECTION OFFICER To 1.2CCs to 2.2CD copies Form-NIC-OGS/WP{KSRANI}