AWADH BIHARI DUBEY Vs. SAIL, BOKARO STEEL PLANT

JUDGEMENT

(1.) DEMAND of the petitioner against the respondents is for correction of the entry in respect of his date of birth in his service records, as per the School Leaving Certificate, and for which he had prayed in this writ application for an appropriate direction to the respondents.

(2.) COUNTER -affidavit has been filed on behalf of the respondent SAIL.

(3.) THE case of the petitioner in brief is that he was appointed under the respondent SAIL in the Bokaro Steel Plant, Bokaro on 31st March 1973. At the time of his appointment, he had produced his School Leaving Certificate in proof of his date of birth as 7.7.1949. The same date of birth was entered in the proposal form of the petitioners Life Insurance Policy and also in the Medical Book issued by the medical department of the company. On the bonafide belief that his date of birth was correctly entered into his service records, the petitioner did not have any reason either to suspect, nor any occasion to verify his service records as maintained by the respondent employer.