6 Majority of the Judicial Magistrates and Metropolitan Magistrates at Chennai would contend that they are being pressurized by the counsels concerned who appeared for the petitioners to pass orders expeditiously in the CMP without even allowing the Judicial Magistrates to apply their judicial knowledge, otherwise the Magistrates are being threatened with dire consequences. As such, they would contend that since the Act simply says only an order made by a Magistrate of the First Class or Presidency Magistrate after verifying the correctness of the birth or death and on payment of the prescribed fee, as there is no staff attached to the Judicial Magistrates or Metropolitan Magistrates to verify the correctness of the birth or death as contemplated in Section 3(3) of the Registration of Births and Deaths Act, 1969, all the Judicial Magistrates and Metropolitan Magistrates would contend that the rule framed under the Act by the Government of Tamil Nadu, it had been falsely framed as Judicial Magistrate in Rule 9(3), while the Act itself is silent in this regard. As such, they would contend that the Magistrate of the First Class or the Presidency Magistrate as referred in Section 13(3) of the Registration of Births and Deaths Act, 1969 would refer only to the Executive Magistrates and hence, if the rule framed under Rule 9(3) is amended, accordingly, it would vest the jurisdiction only to the Executive Magistrates and not to the Judicial
