Ajmer Singh vs State Of M.P. on 22 December, 2016
7. Learned counsel for respondent no.2 has placed
reliance on the judgment in the case of Ashwani Kumar
Saxena v. State of MP : 2013 (1) MPHT 109 (SC),
5
CRR No.464/2013
(Ajmer Singh v. State of MP & Another)
wherein the Hon'ble Supreme Court referred to Rule 12 of
the Rules of 2007 and has categorically mentioned that what
documents can be relied on to determine the age of a
person. In para 34, it is specifically mentioned that in the
absence of matriculation or equivalent certificate or the date
of birth certificate from the School first attended, the Court
need obtain the birth certificate from the School first
attended other than the Play School. In the present case, it
is not the case of the petitioner that respondent no.2 has
passed matriculation or possessed of any other equivalent
certificate. In absence of that, respondent no.2 was obliged
to file details of his birth certificate from the School first
attended other than the Play School. It is also not the case of
the petitioner that the School, from which the record was
produced and exhibited before the Court, was the Play
School. Therefore, in absence of any such pleadings and
evidence on record, the trial Court has rightly confined itself
to the School record which definitely falls within the
provisions of Clause (a) (ii) of Rule 12 (3) of the Rules of
2007 and therefore no illegality can be ascribed to the
impugned order determining the age on the basis of the
School record.