The Defence Ministry has rejected Army Chief General V. K. Singh's statutory complaint to consider May 10, 1951 as his date of birth and conveyed to him that he will have to retire on May 31 next year.

Gen. Singh had filed the statutory complaint with Defence Minister A. K. Antony after the Government on July 21 issued an order saying that it will consider May 10, 1950 as his date of birth, which would have denied him another 10 months in office.

Sources said the Ministry's decision on the issue of his date of birth was conveyed to the Army Chief on Friday.