STATE OF UTTRANCHAL . vs PITAMBER DUTT SEMWAL — C.A. No. 5245/2001

Case Summary: State of Uttranchal v. Pitamber Dutt Semwal Outcome: The Supreme Court allowed the State's appeal and set aside the High Court's Division Bench order. The Court upheld the respondent's superannuation date of April 30, 1996, based on his service book entry of April 10, 1936 as his date of birth, rejecting his belated claim (made 30 years later) that his actual date of birth was July 6, 1942. The Court found Rule 2 of the U.P. Recruitment Service (Determination of Date of Birth) Rules, 1974 clearly prohibited corrections to recorded dates of birth in service books under any circumstances. This case analysis is maintained by casestatus.in based on publicly available court records.