Rather than fraud or lying, I think Dharam Pal Singh may be simply mistaken. My grandmother, who would have been in her 90s now, never knew her correct birthday. She knew her Hindu-calendar birthday, but you can't translate that to a Gergorian date unless you know the year too. Record-keeping in India was pretty patchy back in those days.<p>> <i>For four years, officials said, they had patiently requested that Dharam Pal Singh provide reliable evidence to verify his birth date: school records, military records, baptismal records, medical records, school records of his children.</i><p>Yeah, no. My grandmother could not have done that either. She dropped out before completing high school. Come to think of it, I haven't seen my father's birth certificate either. His school records carry a false birthday, which was pretty common back in the day. If parents wanted to get a child admitted to a school, but the kid was a few months short of being eligible, the parents would just pick a suitable date.