REKHA PALLI, J.

1. Learned counsel for the respondents submit that since the petitioner has filed all the relevant documents, he does not wish to file a counter affidavit and would make submissions based on the pleadings already on record.

2. Vide the present petition, the petitioner, a student of class X in respondent no.2/School, seeks a direction to respondents, to change his name from “Maahir Sharma” to “Maahir Rajeev Sharma” in his Class X certificate to be issued to him by respondent no.1/CBSE, in which examination, he has already appeared in March, 2018.

3. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that though initially the petitioner was known as “Maahir Sharma” and had taken admission in respondent no.2/Indraprastha International School, as “Maahir Sharma” but subsequently due to customary and religious beliefs, petitioner wanted to change his name to “Maahir Rajeev Sharma”. The petitioner’s father, therefore, made the requisite Application seeking a change of the petitioner’s name from “Maahir Sharma” to “Maahir Rajeev Sharma”. He submits that in accordance