JUDGMENT

The writ petition has been filed by the mother and son requesting for either a birth certificate or a certificate showing non availability of the details regarding the birth. Ext.P7 would show that the Kollam Corporation had addressed the Perayam Grama Panchayat stating that on searching the birth registers between 1970 and 1976, they could not find any registration regarding the birth of a boy child to Smt.Mary Dasy and Sri.James residing at Bisnu Nivas, Karikkuzhi, Padappakkara, on 05.01.1973 in Kollam Bensigar Hospital. It is however stated that a couple named James and Daisy James residing in Bunglavill at Kanjirakkod had a boy child on 05.01.1973 and the same was in Kollam Bensiger Hospital and that the said fact has been registered. By Ext.P8, the Perayam Grama Panchayat addressed the 2nd petitioner stating about the information received from the Kollam Corporation and directing her to file an application with the request for correcting the name of the mother from Daisy to Mary Dasy.

2. Ext.P7 letter issued by the Sub Registrar of Births and Deaths, Kollam Municipal Corporation to the Registrar of Births and Deaths/Secretary of the Perayam Grama Panchayat says that the