Federal Service Tribunal (FST) Thursday rejected CCPO Ghulam Mahmood Dogar’s application for a change in his date of birth, reported 24NewsHD TV channel.

In its 13-page decision on Dogar’s application, the FST stated that a child was usually five or six-year-old when he was in class 1 and he or she did matriculation at the age of 15 or 16.

According to Dogar’s matriculation certificate, he completed his matriculation in 1979 at the age of 16 and taking his stance into consideration, he completed matric at the age of 13. His claim of having completed matriculation in 1979 is very important.

FST raised questions on Dogar completing his Master’s Degree and joining the police force in 1993 and not knowing his real date of birth. It was stated that he continued working in the force till 2015 without knowledge of his birthdate and suddenly when he became Deputy Inspector General (DIG), he remembered that he was born in 1965 and not 1963. The written decision stated that former CCPO changing his birthdate in 2015 long after his Matric, Master’s and work in the Police is itself very suspicious. There is no justification for date of birth change in his service record and his application does not meet the merit.

A point was raised that CCPO did not even make the cabinet division a party in the application filed in the civil court of Lahore for correctness of NADRA records. Even if he wanted a change in his service records, why the cabinet division was not made a party in the petition? The statement said that the centre is not bound by the Additional Session judge’s decision. The Additional Session Judge Lahore Adnan Tariq ordered the NADRA authorities to change the date of birth of Ghulam Mahmood Dogar and issue a new identity card. Afterwards, he filed an application for birthdate change in the service records which was rejected