DIMPY SHARMA Vs. STATE OF PUNJAB

JUDGEMENT

(1.) The petitioner Dimpy Sharma has approached this Court seeking a writ of mandamus for directing the respondents to make correction of the date of birth in her service record.

(2.) The petitioner has placed that she was born in Feburary 27, 1969. At the time of her admission in St. Parvati Devi Arya Mahilla Senior Secondary School, Hoshiarpur, her date of birth was rightly mentioned as February 27,1969 in the record of the school. The petitioner passed her middle standard examination from Punjab School Education Board in February 1983. In the certificate issued by the School Board, her date of birth was again correctly mentioned as February 27,1969. A copy of the middle standard certificate issued by the Punjab School Education Board has been appended as Annexure P-1 with the present petition. Thereafter, the petitioner appeared for her matriculation examinations conducted by the Punjab School Education Board. She passed the aforesaid examination in March, 1985. However, when she received the matriculation certificate issued by the Board, it was realised that her date of birth was wrongly mentioned as February 27, 1967 instead of February 27, 1969. The aforesaid certificate issued by the Punjab School Education Board is appended as Annexure P-2 with the present petition.

(3.) The petitioner took up the matter with the school authorities and it was realised that at the time of forwarding her examination form to the Board by the School authorities, due to a clerical mistake, her date of birth had been wrongly mentioned as February 27, 1967, instead of February 27, 1969. In these circumstances, the school authorities sent a communication to the Punjab School Education Board bringing the aforesaid fact to the notice of Board Authorities and also requesting that necessary correction be made in the record of the Board and a corrected matriculation certificate be issued. On the aforesaid request made by the school authorities and after examining the entire matter, the Punjab School Education Board issued a duplicate matriculation certificate qua the petitioner, whereby her date of birth was correctly reflected as February 27, 1969. The aforesaid duplicate matriculation certificate was issued to the petitioner on January 18,2001. A copy of the aforesaid duplicate matriculation certificate has been appended as Annexure P-4 with the present petition.