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SUMMARY
Suit for declaration and injunction---Correction of name and Date of birth---in NADRA record---Trial Court as well as Lower Appellate Court dismissed suit and appeal filed by petitioner / plaintiff--- The learned appellate Court placed reliance primarily on the NADRA record, while discarding the SSC on the ground that the petitioner had passed the SSC examination in a private capacity. Ordinarily, NADRA record does carry evidentiary weight; however, the same is not conclusive, nor immune from judicial scrutiny, particularly where cogent and reliable documentary evidence to the contrary is available on record.
The computerized marriage registration certificate of the petitioner’s parents was available on the file. According to the said document, the marriage of the petitioner’s parents was solemnized on 09-10-1991. If this document is taken into consideration, the recording of the petitioner’s date of birth as 15-07-1990 in the NADRA record becomes factually impossible and unnatural, as it precedes the marriage of her parents. This glaring contradiction strikes at the very credibility of the NADRA entry regarding the petitioner’s date of birth. Significantly, the aforesaid marriage registration certificate was neither objected by the respondents through any written document nor the same was challenged or objected during the course of arguments by the learned Law Officer NADRA.
High Court directed respondents / defendants to correct the name and date of birth of petitioner / plaintiff in NADRA record. Revision was allowed, in circumstances.
 

This civil revision concerned correction of CNIC particulars (name and date of birth). The petitioner challenged NADRA records showing incorrect name “Romana” and date of birth 15-07-1990, claiming her actual name is “Noomana” and DOB is 17-04-2004 as per SSC certificate. Both lower courts dismissed the suit relying on NADRA record.

The High Court found that the NADRA entry was unreliable because:

• Parents’ marriage date (09-10-1991) made recorded DOB impossible
• SSC certificate supported petitioner’s claim
• NADRA failed to rebut key documentary evidence

➡️ Result: Civil revision allowed, lower courts set aside, CNIC correction ordered.

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SECTIONS / LAWS USED

(No statutory criminal sections were applied; this is a civil revision case.)

• Civil Procedure Code, 1908 (CPC) – Revisional jurisdiction
• NADRA Ordinance, 2000 (CNIC record correction framework)

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2-WORD DESCRIPTION

• Identity Correction
• Record Dispute

 

 

JUDGMENT

 

1. Introduction

The petitioner has invoked the revisional jurisdiction of this Court against:

• Judgment & decree dated 25.11.2024 passed by learned Senior Civil Judge (Judicial), Bannu
• Judgment & decree dated 18.02.2025 passed by learned District Judge-I, Bannu

whereby the petitioner’s suit for declaration and mandatory injunction was dismissed.