
Case Law Analysis
|Telangana High Court
Article 14 & 21 | Mechanical 5-Year Rule for Passport DOB Correction Arbitrary : Telangana HC
Telangana High Court rules that rejecting passport date-of-birth corrections solely based on a five-year lapse without assessing document genuineness violates constitutional rights. The judgment mandates individualized evaluation under the 2016 Office Memorandum, impacting thousands seeking identity corrections.