PRAYAGRAJ, April 15 -- The Allahabad high court has said that a mere discrepancy in the dates of birth in different educational records of a government servant, bereft of any element of fraud, misrepresentation, or deliberate concealment, won't be 'fraud or wilful misrepresentation' so as to terminate their services. Justice Manju Rani Chauhan thus quashed the June 2019 dismissal order passed against a government assistant teacher in Mau while directing the state authorities to permit him to resume his duties forthwith. "The inference of fraud, which entails grave civil consequences, cannot be drawn on the basis of equivocal circumstances or mere inconsistencies in record, howsoever inconvenient they may appear," the court said.P2...