{"id":163990,"date":"2008-07-09T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-07-08T18:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/deputy-secretary-vs-navin-m-s-on-9-july-2008"},"modified":"2017-08-14T01:23:25","modified_gmt":"2017-08-13T19:53:25","slug":"deputy-secretary-vs-navin-m-s-on-9-july-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/deputy-secretary-vs-navin-m-s-on-9-july-2008","title":{"rendered":"Deputy Secretary vs Navin.M.S. on 9 July, 2008"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"docsource_main\">Kerala High Court<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_title\">Deputy Secretary vs Navin.M.S. on 9 July, 2008<\/div>\n<pre>       \n\n  \n\n  \n\n \n \n  IN THE HIGH COURT OF KERALA AT ERNAKULAM\n\nWA.No. 1263 of 2008()\n\n\n1. DEPUTY SECRETARY, CENTRAL BOARD OF\n                      ...  Petitioner\n2. JOINT SECRETARY, REGIONAL OFFICE,\n\n                        Vs\n\n\n\n1. NAVIN.M.S., AGED 16, S\/O.SANAL KUMAR,\n                       ...       Respondent\n\n2. UNION OF INDIA, REPRESENTED BY\n\n3. THE PRINCIPAL, TALENT PUBLIC SCHOOL,\n\n                For Petitioner  :SRI.DEVAN RAMACHANDRAN\n\n                For Respondent  :SRI.ABRAHAM THOMAS, CGC\n\nThe Hon'ble the Chief Justice MR.H.L.DATTU\nThe Hon'ble MR. Justice A.K.BASHEER\n\n Dated :09\/07\/2008\n\n O R D E R\n                H.L.DATTU, C.J. &amp; A.K.BASHEER, J.\n               -----------------------------------------------------\n                           W.A.No.1263 of 2008\n                   ----------------------------------------------\n                   Dated, this the 9th day of July, 2008\n\n                                 JUDGMENT\n<\/pre>\n<p>A.K.Basheer, J.\n<\/p>\n<p>              The Central Board of Secondary Education (for short &#8216;the<\/p>\n<p>Board&#8217;) through its Deputy and Joint Secretary at the Regional Office in<\/p>\n<p>Chennai, has preferred this Writ Appeal challenging the order passed by<\/p>\n<p>the learned Single Judge directing the Board to alter the date of birth of<\/p>\n<p>the Writ petitioner in its records.\n<\/p>\n<p>              2. The petitioner is a student of Talent Public School,<\/p>\n<p>Narakkal, which is affiliated to the Board. At the time of admission of<\/p>\n<p>the petitioner in the school, his date of birth was shown as August 14,<\/p>\n<p>1991. Apparently, it was realised by the petitioner later, that a mistake<\/p>\n<p>had crept in while entering the above date in the school records. The<\/p>\n<p>Registrar of Births and Deaths Kuzhupilly Grama Panchayat had issued<\/p>\n<p>Ext.P2 birth certificate indicating the correct date of birth of the<\/p>\n<p>petitioner as February,14, 1991. Therefore, on a request made by the<\/p>\n<p>petitioner, the school authorities had corrected the date of birth in its<\/p>\n<p>records by incorporating the above date. Subsequently a request was<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"hidden_text\"> W.A.No.1263\/2008                   -2-<\/span><\/p>\n<p>made by the petitioner before the Board           to carry out necessary<\/p>\n<p>rectification in the records incorporating the correct date of birth. The<\/p>\n<p>said request was turned down on the plea that,          clause 69.2 of the<\/p>\n<p>Examination Bye-laws interdicted the Board from            making such a<\/p>\n<p>change.    It was in the above circumstances that the petitioner had<\/p>\n<p>approached this Court under Article 226 of the Constitution for<\/p>\n<p>appropriate reliefs.\n<\/p>\n<p>              3. The learned Single Judge, after considering the rival<\/p>\n<p>contentions of the parties, particularly the submission made on behalf of<\/p>\n<p>the Board relying on the clause referred to above, took the view that the<\/p>\n<p>Board was not justified in declining the request made by the petitioner.<\/p>\n<p>Accordingly, the learned Single Judge allowed the writ petition and<\/p>\n<p>directed the Board to carry out the correction of date of birth of the<\/p>\n<p>petitioner consistent with the date indicated in the birth certificate issued<\/p>\n<p>by the statutory authority. The above direction issued by the learned<\/p>\n<p>Single Judge is impugned in this writ appeal.<\/p>\n<p>              4. Sri.Devan Ramachandran, learned counsel appearing<\/p>\n<p>for the appellants places heavy reliance on clause 69.2 of the bye-laws<\/p>\n<p>and contends that no change in the date of birth, can be made in its<\/p>\n<p>records under any circumstances. He contends that what was sought for<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"hidden_text\"> W.A.No.1263\/2008                   -3-<\/span><\/p>\n<p>by the petitioner was a change in the date of birth. The Board was bound<\/p>\n<p>to maintain its records consistent with the original entry made in the<\/p>\n<p>school records. Any alteration or rectification in the date of birth at a<\/p>\n<p>later point of time will amount to a &#8216;change&#8217; which is interdicted by<\/p>\n<p>clause 69.2    of the bye-laws.      We are unable to agree with this<\/p>\n<p>submission.\n<\/p>\n<p>              5. Clause 69.2 of the Examination Bye-laws reads thus:<\/p>\n<p>69.2 Change\/Correction in Date of Births<\/p>\n<p>              i) No change in the date of birth once recorded in<br \/>\n       the Board&#8217;s records shall be made. However, corrections<br \/>\n       to correct typographical and other errors to make the<br \/>\n       certificate consistent with the school records can be made<br \/>\n       provided that corrections in the school records should not<br \/>\n       have been made after the submission of application form<br \/>\n       for admission to Examination to the Board.\n<\/p>\n<p>              ii). Such correction in Date of Birth of a candidate<br \/>\n       in case of genuine clerical errors will be made under<br \/>\n       orders of the Chairman where it is established to the<br \/>\n       satisfaction of the Chairman that the wrong entry was<br \/>\n       made erroneously in the list of candidates\/application<br \/>\n       form of the candidate for the examination.\n<\/p>\n<p>              iii). Request for correction in Date of Birth shall<br \/>\n       be forwarded by the Head of the School along with<br \/>\n       attested Photostat copies of:\n<\/p>\n<p>              a) application for admission of the candidate to the<br \/>\n       School.\n<\/p>\n<p>              b)    portion of the page of admission and<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"hidden_text\"> W.A.No.1263\/2008                   -4-<\/span><\/p>\n<p>        withdrawal register where entry in date of birth has been<br \/>\n        made: and<\/p>\n<p>               c) the School Leaving Certificate of the previous<br \/>\n        school submitted at the time of admission.\n<\/p>\n<p>               iv). The application for correction in date of birth<br \/>\n        duly forwarded by the Head of School alongwith<br \/>\n        documents mentioned in byelaws 69.2 (iii) shall be<br \/>\n        entertained by the Board only within two years of the date<br \/>\n        of declaration of result of Class X examination.        No<br \/>\n        correction whatsoever shall be made on application<br \/>\n        submitted after the said period of two years. This will be<br \/>\n        effective from the examination to be held in March, 1995.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>               6. A perusal of sub clause (1) undoubtedly shows that<\/p>\n<p>correction of typographical or other errors can be made in the records<\/p>\n<p>of the Board to make it consistent with the School records. But it is<\/p>\n<p>contended by the learned counsel that the school authorities were not<\/p>\n<p>justified in allowing the correction of the date of birth after the<\/p>\n<p>submission of the application form for admission. However, a perusal<\/p>\n<p>of Ext.P4 shows that the Board had more or less acceded to the request<\/p>\n<p>made on behalf of the petitioner, in the above communication addressed<\/p>\n<p>by the school authorities. More importantly the school authorities had<\/p>\n<p>only carried out correction of &#8220;an error&#8221; in its records, in tune with the<\/p>\n<p>Birth certificate issued by the statutory authority. The learned Single<\/p>\n<p>Judge in our view, had correctly construed clause 69.2 of the Bye-laws.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"hidden_text\">W.A.No.1263\/2008                   -5-<\/span><\/p>\n<p>In any view of the matter, we do not find any error or illegality in the<\/p>\n<p>order impugned in this writ appeal.\n<\/p>\n<p>            The writ appeal fails, and it is accordingly dismissed.<\/p>\n<p>                                                    (H.L.DATTU)<br \/>\n                                                  CHIEF JUSTICE<\/p>\n<p>                                                 (A.K.BASHEER)<br \/>\n                                                      JUDGE<\/p>\n<p>MS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kerala High Court Deputy Secretary vs Navin.M.S. on 9 July, 2008 IN THE HIGH COURT OF KERALA AT ERNAKULAM WA.No. 1263 of 2008() 1. DEPUTY SECRETARY, CENTRAL BOARD OF &#8230; Petitioner 2. JOINT SECRETARY, REGIONAL OFFICE, Vs 1. NAVIN.M.S., AGED 16, S\/O.SANAL KUMAR, &#8230; Respondent 2. UNION OF INDIA, REPRESENTED BY 3. THE PRINCIPAL, TALENT [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-163990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-high-court","category-kerala-high-court"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Deputy Secretary vs Navin.M.S. on 9 July, 2008 - Free Judgements of Supreme Court &amp; High Court | Legal India<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/deputy-secretary-vs-navin-m-s-on-9-july-2008\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Deputy Secretary vs Navin.M.S. on 9 July, 2008 - Free Judgements of Supreme Court &amp; 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