Lakshmi Narain Agarwal vs State Transport Authority, U.P. & Anr on 26 September, 1967
7. It is well settled law that the entries in school registers are of little value as evidence of age. The statement of age of a person in the school register, in the absence of evidence to show that on what material the entry in the register was made, has not much evidentiary value. It is a matter of common knowledge that the date of birth given at the time of admission of a boy or a girl in a school is seldom correct and authenticated date and more often than not the age given is less than the actual age of the child joining the school. In actual life it often happens that persons give false age of the bov at the time of his admission to a school so that later in life he would have an advantage when seeking public service for which a minimum aee for eligibility is often prescribed. The Court of fact cannot ignore this fact while asses-sine the value of the entrv and it would be improper for the Court to base anv conclusion on the basis of the entrv regarding the age in a school register --vide Lakshmi Narain v. The State, (1968) 70 Pun LR (SN) 31; Asa Nand v. Gian Chand.