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Smt. Ajeya Mitra v. State of West Bengal and Ors.

Calcutta HC11 May 2026WPA/10004/2026

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Date-of-birth verification writ (WPA 10004 of 2026), Ajeya Mitra v. The State of West Bengal & Ors.; KMC birth-records search returned negative for birth event of 25.04.1939 (parents Ashoke Nath Mukherji and Anupama Mukherji); report dated 11.05.2026 of Sub-Registrar (Health Department) and Chief Municipal Officer, KMC treated as communication to petitioner; matter closed; writ disposed of (not decided on merits).

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Writ petition disposed of with observations and directions that the KMC report dated 11th May, 2026 be treated as the Corporation's communication to the petitioner and the matter be brought to close. ¶19

Smt. Ajeya Mitra Vs State of West Bengal and Ors. — Calcutta HC (2026) — LawSathi Research

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AD 05 11.05.2026 sayandeep Ct.3.

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WPA 10004 of 2026

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Smt. Ajeya Mitra Versus The State of West Bengal & Ors.

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Mr. Tapas Majumdar Mr. Supriya Ranjan Ghosh Mr. Sanatan Panja

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… For the petitioner Mr. Alok Kr. Ghosh Mr. Swapan Kr. Debnath

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… For the KMC

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The petitioner who is a practicing advocate of this

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Court has filed the present writ petition so as to direct the Municipality to respond to the information sought for by the petitioner as regards the recording, if any, of her date of birth in the office records of the Municipal Corporation.

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The petitioner claims that the petitioner was born on

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25^th April, 1939 and was enrolled as an advocate in the Bar Council of West Bengal on 4^th August, 1970 vide enrollment No. WB/366/1970. Such fact would corroborate from the identity card issued by the Bar Council of West Bengal counter signed by the Chairman on 9^th May, 2000. A copy of such document as placed before this Court is taken on record.

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The petitioner claims to have also deposed before the learned Executive Magistrate, Kolkata claiming that as per her knowledge which she has gathered from her late parents during their lifetime, she was born at

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WPA 10004 of 2026

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P-54 Raja Basanta Roy Road, KMC, Ward No. 69, P.S.- Kalighat, Kolkata-700026 on 25^th April, 1939. She has also deposed that her delivery took place at home and her father’s name is Late Ashoke Nath Mukherji and her mother’s name is Late Anupama Mukherji. This date of birth has been recorded in all contemporaneous documents of the petitioner including her passport. A copy whereof as placed before this Court is also taken on record.

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When the matter was taken up for hearing on 7^th June, 2026, this Court had called upon the Municipality to take appropriate instructions in the matter. Today, the learned advocate for the Municipal Corporation has placed before this Court a report dated 11^th May, 2026 duly counter singed by the Sub-Registrar, Health Department, Kolkata Municipal Corporation and the Chief Municipal Officer, Kolkata Municipal Corporation, and would submit that from the above report, it would be apparent that no record of the birth event of a female baby of Ashoke Nath Mukherji and Anupama Mukherji is found in the records of the Municipal Corporation. The Municipality has also not been able to locate any register as regards the above birth event and as such the information was not furnished. Let a copy of the aforesaid report as placed before this Court be taken on record.

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WPA 10004 of 2026

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Having regard to the above disclosure, I am of the view that since the birth event of the female child of Ashoke Nath Mukherji and Anupama Mukherji as aforesaid is not found in the records of the Municipal Corporation, the aforesaid report should be treated as a communication issued by the Corporation to the petitioner and the matter should be brought to close.

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With the above observations and directions, the writ petition is disposed of.

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(Raja Basu Chowdhury, J.)

Smt. Ajeya Mitra v. State of West Bengal and Ors.

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