This Revision Petition involves a question of some interest whether with regard to children born out of lawful wedlock, any presumption of paternity can arise in a proceeding under section 488, Criminal Procedure Code, merely upon the entries found in certain Birth Register Extracts, where there is no evidence to show that the alleged father was the informant, or that he gave some information constituting an admission of paternity.

Briefly stated, the facts are that the revision petitioner was on terms of illicit intimacy with the respondent, one Yesoda Bai alias Radha Bai, a person related to "him. But the revision peritioner himself has a wife, and six children born to him in lawful wedlock Whatever might have been the attitude of the revision petitioner in the Court below, his learned counsel (Sri N. Suryanarayana) now concedes that the intimacy itself is indisputable. Further , it is clear that one child was born to the revision petitioner and the respondent (the petitioner in the Court below), and the maintenance awarded to that child is not now in issue before me. That is because the revision petitioner was himself the informant to the authorities regarding the birth i