Muthu Anna Subitha a v. The District Registrar
Case brief
What is this about?
Second birth certificate after adoption; incorporation of adoptive parents' names in birth record; Registration of Birth and Death; Kanyakumari district; Kulasekharam; Health Inspector cum Birth and Death Registrar; suo motu impleadment; Writ of Mandamus under Article 226; Ministry of Women and Child Development notification dated 23.09.2022; Madurai Bench of Madras High Court; direction to registrar within four weeks; no costs.
What did the court decide?
Writ Petition allowed with a direction to the third respondent to issue a second birth certificate to the petitioner's adopted son as T.Shalom, replacing the father's and mother's names with Thambi Raja Peter and Muthu Anna Subitha respectively as per the Ministry of Women and Child Development notification dated 23.09.2022, within four weeks from receipt of a copy of the order; no order as to costs.