Kameshwar Prasad Singh v. The State Of Bihar And ORS

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA

Civil Writ Jurisdiction Case No.18097 of 2014 =========================================================== Kameshwar Prasad Singh, Son of Late Ram Udagar Singh, Resident of Village Harnahiya, P.S. Bakhtiyarpur, District Patna, presently residing at Ashok Nagar, Housing Board, Near Janta Flat, P.S. Rampur, District Gaya. .... .... Petitioner

Versus

1. The State of Bihar, through the Principal Secretary, Human Resources Development (Secondary Education) Department, Bihar, Patna.

2. The Secretary, Bihar School Examination Board, Bihar, Patna.

3. The Principal, Mahavir High School, Gaya.

.... .... Respondents =========================================================== Appearance :

For the Petitioner :

Mr. Satyendra Narayan Verma, Advocate For the State :

Mr. Rajesh Singh, GP16 =========================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE AJAY KUMAR TRIPATHI ORAL JUDGMENT Date: 04-12-2015 Petitioner is challenging Annexure-1 dated 18.06.2014 by virtue of which the Secretary, Bihar School Examination Board has refused to bring about any changes in the date of birth in the matriculation certificate of the petitioner. Petitioner claims that his date of birth ought to be 17.10.1958 in stead of 17.10.1956. No doubt this order has been passed at the instance of a direction issued by the High Court in a previous writ application but the order itself indicates that the records of the Board in relation to the petitioner indicates his date of birth to be 1956 and not 1958. This Court finds it ironical that a student who is no longer a student but has become a teacher discovers infirmity in his date of birth after almost 31⁄2 decades. Admittedly he sat for the

Patna High Court CWJC No.18097 of 2014 dt.04-12-2015 2 / 2 examination for matriculation in the year 1974. He approaches the authorities and the High Court in the year 2006 for the first time. Obviously the whole exercise or demand is motivated by greed to hang on to a job a couple of years longer than what the petitioner would get on the basis of his actual date of birth. Such corrections/modifications are not required to be entertained after 31⁄2 decades of the event and having taken place. No interference is warranted with Annexure-1.

Writ application is dismissed.

(Ajay Kumar Tripathi, J.) Sanjay/- U