R.SUDHAKAR
P. V. Balaji – Appellant
Versus
Registrar of Birth & Death, Pondicherry Municipality – Respondent
1. This writ petition is filed praying to issue a Writ of Certiorarified Mandamus calling for the records pertaining to the impugned order made in No.100/P-Na/P.E.A./11AA/12, dated 1.3.2012 and quash the same and consequently direct the respondent to make appropriate inquiry as contemplated in the Registration of Birth and Death Act 1969 and Rules.
2. Heard the learned counsel for the petitioner and the learned Government Advocate appearing for the respondent.
3. The respondent refused to accept the petitioner's plea for changing the name of the father of the child Shreyas in the Birth Certificate from that of Venkatesan to P.V.Balaji, the petitioner herein. The reason given by the authority while declining such a claim is on the ground that the petitioner has to get appropriate order from the competent Court. The document, viz., Birth Certificate in which the correction is sought for, bears the name of one Venkatesan as the father of the child Shreyas and that Certificate is registered on 15.2.2005. This is an admitted fact that Shreyas was born to Revathy after she married Venkatesan.
4. The plea of the petitioner is that in the Guardian Wards Original Petition No.14 of
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