State Of Assam & Anr vs Daksha Prasad Deka & Ors on 23 October, 1970
In the case of State of Assam v. Daksha Prasad Deka
(1970 (3) SCC 624), this Court said that the date of the
compulsory retirement "must in our judgment, be determined
on the basis of the service record and not on what the
respondent claimed to be his date of birth, unless the
service record is first corrected consistently with the
appropriate procedure."