:1: FARAD CONTINUATION SHEET No. IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY APPELLATE SIDE DISTRICT : WRIT PETITION NO.6160 OF 2008 --------------------------------------------------------------------- Office Notes, Office Memoranda Court’s or Judge’s of Coram, appearances, Court’s orders orders or directions and Registrar’s orders --------------------------------------------------------------------- Mr.K.M.Hosurkar i/b.Mr.P.C.Botre for the Petitioner. Mr.V.S.Masurkar, G.P. for Respondent nos.1 to 3. CORAM : BILAL NAZKI AND S.J.VAZIFDAR, JJ. DATED : 7TH OCTOBER, 2008 P.C : P.C : P.C : The Petitioner wants a direction from this Court that the Government should change his date of birth from 13.12.1950 to 13.12.1952 on the ground that he came to know in 2004 that his date of birth had wrongly been recorded in the school records and other records. The Petitioner has entered in service in the year 1979 and almost 30 years have passed and on the verge of retirement he seeks correction of his date of :2: birth. 2. Such practice has been discouraged by the Courts, including the Supreme Court of India. The Petitioner is governed by the Maharashtra Civil Service (General Conditions of Service) Rules, 1981 and in terms of Rule 38 it is made easy that :- "When once an entry of age or date of birth has been made in a service book no alteration of the entry should afterwards be allowed.................... Normally, no application for alteration of the entry regarding date of birth as recorded in the service book or service roll of a Government servant should be entertained after a period of five years commencing from the date of his entry in :3: Government service". 3. Since the Petitioner has not approached the Respondents within five years of his service career and has only approached at the fag end of the career, we do not find any merit in the Writ Petition. 4. Writ Petition is dismissed. (BILAL NAZKI J.) (S.J. VAZIFDAR, J.)