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Civil service-------Age---Date of birth---Correction---Civil servant was relieved of his duties after more than twenty-five years of service on his application under Voluntary Separation Scheme---Civil servant, after retirement sought for correction of his date of birth recorded in his service record, but his request was turned down---Appeal filed against order of Authority was dismissed by Service Tribunal observing that civil servant who had served for more than twenty-five years, should have taken up point of correction of his date of birth before his retirement, but he having failed to agitate that point during that period, could not ask for correction of date of birth at such belated stage---Entries with regard to date -of birth in application filed by civil servant under Voluntary Separation Scheme were duly signed by him and same were in line with entries in his Service Book---Civil servant who had failed to get his date of birth corrected within quarter of a century, efforts made by him after such a long time to have his date of birth corrected being afterthought, were rightly rejected by Authorities as well as Service Tribunal. M. Siddique Qureshi, Advocate High Court (with Special Permission) for Petitioner. Nemo for Respondent. Date of hearing: 9th October, 1998. ORDER CH. MUHAMMAD ARIF, J---The background, regarding this petition under Article 212(3) of the Constitution of Islamic Republic of Pakistan, 1973 against the judgment dated 10-12-1997 of the Federal Service Tribunal dismissing petitioner's Appeal No.492(R) of 1997, is that he was appointed as peon in the office of Carrier Telephone Industries (Pvt.), Islamabad since March, 1971. His application under Voluntary Separation Scheme, V.S.S. for short, was accepted on 8-4-1997 and he was relieved of his duties w.e.f. 15-4-1997 vide order dated 8-4-1997. After his retirement, he applied on 3-6-1997 for change of his 'date of birth' from 1-1-1940 to 17-2-1945, which was rejected by the respondents on 2-7-1997. His Service Appeal was dismissed by the Federal Service Tribunal on 26-11-1997 Penultimate paragraph of this judgment reads thus: -- "2 We have heard learned counsel for the parties at some…

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