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2025 Supreme(All) 3287

IN THE HIGH COURT OF ALLAHABAD
AJIT KUMAR
Ravindra Pratap – Appellant
Versus
Union Of India – Respondent


Advocates:
Advocate Appeared:
For the Appellant : Ram Sagar Yadav
For the Respondent: A.S.G.I.,C.S.C.

JUDGMENT :

Ajit Kumar, J.

1. Heard Mr. Ram Sagar Yadav, learned counsel for the petitioner and learned Additional Chief Standing Counsel appearing for the State.

2. Petitioner, who is working on the post of Constable (GD) bearing No. 192711962 at P.R.B. No. 112 of U.P. Police, is aggrieved by the order passed by Deputy Inspector General of Police Establishment, Police Headquarter, U.P. Lucknow, whereby his application for change of his name in the official record from Chhot Kann to Ravindra Pratap has been rejected.

3. Briefly stated facts of the case are that petitioner was named by his parents as 'Chhot Kann' and accordingly, when he entered in high school, his name got registered as 'Choot Kann' and thus he obtained high school and intermediate certificate with this name as 'Chhot Kann' son of Narayan (father) and Kaushalya Devi (mother). Later on, he came to be selected in U.P. police as Constable, however, soon after entering into police force, he saw people making fun out of his name as Chhot Kann and thus started teasing him quite often. This satirazation of his name amongst colleges and friends became matter of embarrassment and depression for him and accordingly, he decided to

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