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Industrial dispute--- ---- Date of birth---Correction of---Date of birth as entered in service record of employee at time of his appointment was sought to be corrected according to date of birth as entered in birth certificate obtained by employee from his native place in India duly authenticated by Ministry of Foreign Affairs and also by Government of India---No bar existed to alteration of date of birth entered in service record of employee if proof for such alteration had been obtained by him pending the terms of his employment---Employee had an inherent right to have his correct age recorded in the service record. Izzat Puri for Appellant. M. Latif Saghar for Respondent. Date of hearing: 31st May, 1995. DECISION The appellants K.E.S.C. have called in question the decision of the Labour Court determining age of the respondent. 2. The respondent had joined the service of the K.E.S.C. on 22-8-1957. At that time the respondent's date of birth was entered in the service record as 1-8-1932. There was no evidence of age available at that time and this date of birth was recorded on the presumption that the respondent was'25 years of age at that time. Later on the respondent applied for correction of the date of birth in his service record and mentioned this date to be 30-4-1939. The K.E.S.C. declined to alter his date of birth. He therefore fled his grievance petition before the Labour Court. The Labour Court gave him time to obtain proof of date of birth from India. The respondent accordingly obtained two certificates from his native place Herdoi District Shahabad Uttar Pardesh. One is authenticated by Ministry of Foreign Affairs,…

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