IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB & HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH CWP No. 23371 of 2010 Date of Decision: 19.10.2011 Gurpreet Singh ...Petitioner Versus Central Board of Secondary Education and others ..Respondents. CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE SURYA KANT Present : Mr. Malkeet Singh, Advocate, for the petitioner. Mr. Aseem Aggarwal, Advocate for respondents No.1 and 2. **** SURYA KANT, J.(Oral) The petitioner seeks a direction to the Central Board of Secondary Education to correct his date of birth in the certificate of All India Secondary School Examination 2001 i.e. 10th class examination. 2) The stand of the Central Board of Secondary Education is that the date of birth as mentioned in the certificate is based upon the information sent by a school where he was studying and no mistake in this regard has been committed by the Board. The petitioner on the other hand relies upon his birth certificate and passport etc. to prove that the date of birth recorded in the matriculation certificate is incorrect. It may be pertinently noticed here that the only correction sought by the petitioner is that his correct date of birth is 16.12.1985 instead of 06.12.1985. CWP No. 23371 of 2010 [2] 3) Having heard learned counsel for the parties and considering that the question of fact involved in this writ petition cannot be resolved by a writ Court but also keeping in view the nature of correction, I deem it appropriate to dispose of this petition with a direction to the Central Board of Secondary Education to hold a fact finding enquiry at the expenses of the petitioner regarding genuineness of his claim and in case the Board authorities are satisfied that there was an inadvertent mistake on the part of the school in sending incorrect date of petitioner's birth, necessary correction may be carried out in the matriculation certificate. However, if the Board authorities are satisfied that the claim put forth by the petitioner is an after thought, they shall be at liberty to reject the same by passing a speaking order. The needful shall be done within three months from the date of receipt of a certified copy of this order. The Central Board of Secondary Education shall be at liberty to ask the petitioner to deposit the expenses likely to be incurred on the fact finding enquiry, in advance. Disposed of. Dasti. 19.10.2011 (SURYA KANT) 'ravinder' JUDGE