The EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR (P&GS) STATE LIFE, PRINCIPAL OFFICE KARACHI vs MUHAMMAD NISAR, AREA MANAGER, STATE LIFE

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The EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR (P&GS) STATE LIFE, PRINCIPAL OFFICE KARACHI VS MUHAMMAD NISAR, AREA MANAGER, STATE LIFE CORPORATION OF PAKISTAN, PESHAWAR ZONE, PESHAWAR Regln. 20---Employee of State Life Insurance Corporation---Change in date of birth sought close to retirement---Permissibility---It is obligatory for any employee to intimate his correct date of birth and to produce confirmatory documentary evidence at the time when the first entry is made in the service record which cannot be altered, except in the case of a clerical error, because the date of birth once recorded at the time of joining service is deemed to be final and thereafter no alteration in the date of birth is permissible---It is an admitted position that in the original National Identity Card (CNIC), the year of birth of the respondent (employee) was 1964, while in the CNIC prepared on 12.11.2002, again his date of birth was 22.09.1964---Even in his Passport his date of birth was 22.09.1964---However, the respondent was issued his new CNIC on 03.03.2023, wherein his date of birth was shown as 22.09.1966---Employer-Corporation had issued a circular, wherein it was categorically mentioned that certain employees are placing a representation for the correction in the date of birth after having completed a number of years of service, therefore, it was announced by means of the aforesaid circular that no change in the date of birth will be made if it is not requested within 2 years of the date of initial appointment---Respondent himself relied upon this circular---Record reflects that the respondent first applied for the correction of his date of birth in the official record vide application dated 17.03.2023 on the basis of his matriculation certificate issued in 1983, but no justification was shown in the application as to why he himself mentioned his date of birth as 22.09.1964 when he was appointed by the petitioner's company---It is also incomprehensible that even when he applied for a CNIC in 2002, why at that time the correction was not applied, and even in his passport, issued in 2010, he maintained the same date of birth---Petition was converted into appeal and allowed, impugned judgment of the High Court was set aside and writ petition filed by the respondent in the High Court was dismissed.

The EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR (P&GS) STATE LIFE, PRINCIPAL OFFICE KARACHI vs MUHAMMAD NISAR, AREA MANAGER, STATE LIFE CORPORATION OF PAKISTAN, PESHAWAR ZONE, PESHAWAR Regln — 2025 SCMR 249 SUPREME-COURT

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