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Civil service------Age---Date of birth--Correction of---Civil servant who entered into service in the year 1957 was retired in 1999 taking into consideration, his date of birth as recorded in his service book which was 17-3-1939---Civil servant had challenged his retirement contending that his date of birth was 17-3-1943 and not 17-3-1939 and claimed that he had filed application in 1959 for correction of his date of birth, but could not prove tiling of such application---Civil servant in a suit and by Constitutional petition did not mention the fact of tiling any such application---During his whole service at no stage he had made effort for getting his date of birth corrected and only two years before his retirement made application for the correction--- Authority had rightly exercised its discretion against the civil servant and refused to entertain his claim at such a belated stage and had placed on record the extract of the service book relating to his date of birth which was signed by civil suregeon and contained thumb-impression of civil servant thereon which he had never challenged---If date of birth as claimed by 'the civil servant was considered correct then at time of joining service his age would be 14 years---Claim of civil servant was rightly rejected. 1976 PLC (C.S.) 144; 1980 PLC (C.S.) 90; 1981 PLC (C.S.) 701, 1982 PLC (C.S.) 38.and 1983 PLC (C.S.) 307 ref. Abdul Lateef Ansari for Appellant. Muhammad Kassim Mirjat, A.-A.G. for Official Respondents. Date of hearing: 11th April, 2000. , JUDGMENT ABDUL MAJID KHANZADA, CHAIRMAN.--- The facts giving viz to the above appeal are that the appellant being matriculate of the year 1957 was appointed as boy clerk by the Deputy Director Food, Hyderabad in defunct West Pakistan Government: The date of birth of the appellant is 17-3-1943 and as such was appointed in 1957. That at the time of First Entry in Government service the age Column in non-gazatted Service Book of the appellant was left blank for want of authenticated documentary proof of age whereas all other relevant entries were filled in. Sindh University issued Pacca Certificate after one year of leaving the school and as such he moved application…

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