1996 INSC 0329
                                                    Union of India

                                                           Vs

                                                  Ram Suia Sharma

                                          Civil Appeal No. 3626 of 1996

                                      (K. Ramaswamy, G. B. Pattanaik JJ)

                                                     15.02.1996.

                                                        ORDER

1. Leave granted.

2. The controversy raised in this appeal is no longer res integra. In a series of judgments, this Court
has held that a court or tribunal at the belated stage cannot entertain a claim for the correction of the
date of birth duly entered in the service records. Admittedly, the respondent had joined the service
on 16-12-1962. After 25 years, he woke up and claimed that his correct date of birth is 2-1-1939 and
not 16-12-1934. That claim was accepted by the Tribunal and it directed the Government to
consider the correction. The direction is per se illegal.

3. The appeal is accordingly allowed. No costs.