DOB Rules After Retirement: Date of birth is a date about which everyone is aware. It is important in every matter and work of a person. Date of birth plays an important role from studies to job and then retirement. But you can change your date of birth in many ways. Its proof is either your mark sheet or any identity card issued by the government, the basis of all these is your birth certificate. But many times such cases arise with people that they have to make rounds of the court. One such case has recently come up from the Karnataka High Court.
The High Court gave its verdict
Let us tell you that as per the government rules, no person can change his date of birth after retirement. In such a situation, the High Court rejected the application for date of birth of a person who retired in 2006. The High Court did this because the person had taken advantage of his job with the birth certificate he had, according to which his retirement was to be in 2006. But by the time the new birth certificate was made, he had already retired, so according to the new birth certificate his age became 4 years younger.
Why can’t you change your date of birth after retirement?
Considering the above reason, any person can commit fraud to extend his job or to take advantage of it after retirement. To avoid such fraud, the government does not give you a chance to change the date of birth after retirement. If this happens, then from tomorrow any person can change his date of birth and ask the government to increase his service limit. Not only this, he can also take advantage of his new date in a wrong way and ask for benefits from the government, which is completely illegal.
The verdict in this case
Actually, the case of changing the date of birth is related to a person. Before retiring, the person used to work in a pulp drying processor manufacturing unit from 1983 to 2006. At the time of being hired, he had stated his date of birth as 30 March 1952, but he did not present any proof of this. In such a situation, the person retired in 2006. On the other hand, on the basis of the employee’s school certificate and information received from the Provident Fund, the employee’s date of birth was recorded as 10 March 1948. On this basis, the employee got retirement in the year 2006 at the age of 58. But on the basis of the new date of birth, the person’s age was 4 years less, due to which the person approached the Labor Court, from there the case went to the Karnataka High Court where it was rejected.
The High Court cited the Supreme Court
During the hearing, the court referred to the Supreme Court’s order, which said that the date of birth cannot be changed after retirement. The High Court said that the employee had the opportunity to change his date of birth earlier as well but it was not done. The High Court said that the date of birth recorded in the Provident Fund and school certificates is correct, and it will be considered valid. The court also said that the retired person has presented this claim to get undue benefits. After this, the court rejected the petitioner’s petition and said that employees cannot change their date of birth after retirement.
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