Sunil Kumar Sharma vs Union Of India on 3 June, 2014
25.The burden of proving this issue is also on the defendants. It is
alleged that no cause of action arises in favour of the plaintiff as the
defendants cannot change/rectify the date of birth in the passport of
the plaintiff without a declaratory order of the court of competent
jurisdiction. The circulars relied upon in this regard by the plaintiff
have been perused and it has been held that Exhibit-D1 is applicable
to the facts of the present case and that the defendants should have
corrected the date of birth in the plaintiff's passport without
relegating the party to institute the present suit. Thus, this contention
of the defendants is without merit and the defendants have failed to
discharge the onus of proving that the plaintiff has no cause of
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action as against the defendants. This issue is also decided in the
negative.