IN THE HIGH COURT OF KERALA AT ERNAKULAM PRESENT THE HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE ALEXANDER THOMAS THURSDAY, THE 01ST DAY OF NOVEMBER 2018 / 10TH KARTHIKA, 1940 WP(C).No. 35667 of 2018 PETITIONER:

RAJASEKHARAN.V S/O LATE CHANDRAN, VICHATTU HOUSE, NOW RESIDING AT HOUSE NO. S.R.A 9, CHURAKATTUKARA ROAD, PUZHAKKAL P.O., THRISSUR - 680 553 BY ADVS.

SRI.SHAJI THOMAS SRI.BINU PAUL SRI.JEN JAISON RESPONDENT:

THE REGISTRAR OF BIRTHS AND DEATHS (HEALTH INSPECTOR), OFFICE THE REGISTRAR OF BIRTHS AND DEATHS, THRISSUR CORPORATION, THRISSUR - 680 001 SRI.P.SANTHOSH PODUVAL, SC, THRISSUR CORPORATION THIS WRIT PETITION (CIVIL) HAVING COME UP FOR ADMISSION ON 01.11.2018, THE COURT ON THE SAME DAY DELIVERED THE FOLLOWING:

ALEXANDER THOMAS, J.

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W.P(C)No.35667 of 2018 =============================

Dated this the 1^st day of November, 2018

JUDGMENT

AS per the averments in this petition, the petitioner was born on 11.12.1982 at the residence of his parents at Pullazhi Village, Thrissur District that the petitioner’s parents had failed to take steps to register the birth of the petitioner with the office of the respondent- Registrar of Births and Deaths attached to the local authority concerned. Exts.P-2 to P-4 are copies of the relevant pages of the S.S.L.C Book, Aadhar Card, Passport, etc., wherein, the petitioner’s date of birth has been recorded as 11.12.1982. Ext.P-5 is the legal heirship certificate issued by the Tahsildar, Chittur certifying that the petitioner and his mother are the only legal heirs of his deceased father, V.R.Chandran. The petitioner is now processing papers for grant of visa to emigrate to Canada and the emigration authorities of the government of that foreign country insists that the birth certificate should be produced and that the name of the party concerned as well as the names of the parents and the date of birth of the party shown should be in consonance with particulars in that regard as shown in other documents like passport etc. Hence, the petitioner had approached the respondent, who is a notified Registrar of Births and Deaths attached to Thrissur Municipal Corporation, for taking getting the birth registered, in terms of the provisions contained in the Registration of Births and Deaths Act, 1999 and the Rules framed thereunder. In view of the long delay in taking steps in that regard, prior permission from an officer of the rank of Sub Divisional Magistrate/Revenue Divisional Officer is required under Sec.13(3) of the abovesaid Act before the birth could be registered and for the issuance of the birth certificate in that regard.

The said statutory authority under Sec.13(3), viz. Sub Divisional Magistrate/RDO concerned has informed the petitioner that certificate in Form No.10, as envisaged in Rule.13(3) of the Registration of Births and Deaths Rules, 1999 regarding the non-availability of registration of the birth of the party concerned, in the records of that notified Registrar concerned. For that purpose, the petitioner had approached the respondent for the grant of Form No.10 Certificate. The petitioner has been informed that the Health Inspector attached to the said Municipal Corporation has been notified as the Sub-Registrar of Births and Deaths of that corporation and the said official had thereupon issued Ext.P-1 letter dated 28.07.2015 stating that the birth of the petitioner has not been registered as per the zonal records of that office from the years 1982 to 1992. Ext.P-1 is a letter addressed by the respondent to the petitioner, the gist of which reads as follows:

“Sub: Birth Not Registered Ref: As per the Request given on 27/07/2015 This is to inform to Mr.Rajasekharan Vichattu, S/O Late Chandran.V.R as per the above mentioned request you have submitted to us, that your birth was not registered in our Zonal records from the year

1982-1992”

2. Ext.P-1 is the letter signed by the Health Inspector and the seal of the Sub-Registrar of Births and Deaths, of the Thrissur Municipal Corporation