Certificate is not in respect of her grandfather. In the school record, name of father of her grandfather Raghunath is shown to be Shrawan Mangal Shivadikar, resident of Shivadi Koliwada. The petitioner has not produced any other birth certificate of her grandfather nor she has produced any document to show that there was some other person by the same name “Raghunath Shrawan Shivdikar”, who was born on 5.11.1931, while her grandfather was born on 2.10.1931. The Birth Register is required to be maintained as per the statutory provisions of the Births, Deaths and Marriages Registration Act, 1986. Section 20 makes a provision as to who can give notice of birth of a child. Section 27 provides for punishment of imprisonment for a term which may extend to three years, or with fine, or with both, for wilfully giving false information about birth or death to be inserted in such a register. Thus, under the threat of punishment against any false information, one has to furnish the information about the birth or death of a person under Section 20. Under Section 9 of the said Act, a copy of an entry given from the birth or death register is admissible in evidence for the purpose of proving birth or death of a person without calling the original record before the Court. The entries are taken by the officer entrusted with the responsibility of maintaining the Birth Register. When such an entry is taken by a public servant in the ordinary course of discharging his official functions, it can be presumed under Section 114 of the Evidence Act that the entry was correctly taken. Many a times date of
