IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA CWJC No.55 of 2011 PRASHANT KUMAR SINGHAL . Versus THE UNION OF INDIA & ANR . ----------- 2/ 25/2/2011 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and the Union Of India. The petitioner desires issuance of a passport for his minor son Rahul Singhal. It is submitted that earlier a passport was issued in the name of the minor son on 12.5.2005. His date of birth mentioned therein was 28.3.2003. The passport lost its validity on 11.5.2010. It was subsequently discovered that the municipal birth certificate on basis of which entry was made in the passport bore the wrong date of birth as 23.8.2002 in stead of 23.8.2001. The petitioner applied to the Municipal Corporation for a fresh corrected birth certificate recording the date of birth of his minor son as 23.8.2001 and which has been issued on 29.3.2007. He applied for the fresh passport which is now being denied for the aforesaid reason of the difference of date of birth. He submits that the Municipal Corporation under Section-476 of the erstwhile Patna Municipal Corporation Act, 1951 was fully competent to issue the birth certificate. The genuineness of the corrected birth certificate is not in issue. The petitioner 2 does not stand to gain anything, but loses one year by reducing the date of birth. There is no difference in the date and the month but only year. Relying on Section-12 of the Bihar Registration of Births and Deaths Rules, it is submitted that an entry made in the birth register is fully amenable to correction on an application made after enquiry which has been done in the present case. Learned counsel for the Union Of India submits that he has instructions to state that the petitioner has not filled up the date of birth of his son in the application form which has been informed to the petitioner also. If that be correct, quite obviously, the municipal birth certificate is not an issue with the respondents. Let the petitioner appear before the respondents along with a copy of the present order when he shall be permitted to make necessary entries in the application form with supporting proof as was urged before the Court. Thereafter, let the passport of the minor son of the petitioner be issued in accordance with law within a maximum period of one month from the said date. The application is disposed. KC ( Navin Sinha, J.)