MUHAMMAD JAMIL, AIG OPS GILGIT-BALTISTAN, GILGIT vs PROVINCIAL GOVERNMENT through Chief Secretary G

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MUHAMMAD JAMIL, AIG OPS GILGIT-BALTISTAN, GILGIT VS PROVINCIAL GOVERNMENT through Chief Secretary G.B. Date of birth of civil servant, alteration of---Scope---Petitioner, serving as Additional Inspector General in Police, sought directions for correction of his date of birth in the computerized pay system maintained by Accountant General Gilgit-Baltistan Pakistan Revenue ('AGPR')---Contention of the petitioner was that while converting the manual pay system into computerized system of the respondent / AGPR, the date of birth of the petitioner mentioned in service book as 13-12-1963 had been wrongly mentioned 13-05-1963---Validity---Record revealed that the actual date of birth of the petitioner in accordance with his service book, medical certificate and CNIC, was 13-12-1963---Said fact had even not been denied by the respondents in their para-wise comments furnished in the Chief Court for present writ petition---Petitioner had been performing his duty in accordance with service book, but abruptly, respondent / AGPR disclosed his date of birth as 13-05-1962 in monthly salary statement for the month of March, 2021---Moreover, the Secretary Home Principal Accounting Officer (respondent),vide official letter addressed to the respondent /AGPR, had stated that as per record (service book, CNIC, Birth Certificate and Medical Certificate) the date of birth of the petitioner was 13-12-1963 whereas in computerized pay slip it was 13-05-1962, therefore, his (petitioner's) date of birth be corrected in computerized pay slip as per service book record---As per para 12-A of ESTA CODE, the date of birth once recorded at the time of joining Government Services shall be final and thereafter no alteration in the date of birth of a Civil Servant shall be permissible---In existence of the said mandatory provisions of ESTA Code, the respondent/AGPR could not change the date of birth of the petitioner in computerized salary slip---Date of birth once entered in the service record will not be altered and if any alteration is to be sought the same has to be done within a period of two years of joining of service and not thereafter---Chief Court directed the respondent / AGPR to correct date of birth of the petitioner in his computerized pay slip---Writ petition was allowed, in circumstances. Head NotesCase Description

MUHAMMAD JAMIL, AIG OPS GILGIT-BALTISTAN, GILGIT vs PROVINCIAL GOVERNMENT through Chief Secretary G — 2023 PLC(CS) 1504 Gilgit-Baltistan Chief Court

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