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Madras High Court: Father’s name in birth certificate is optional
Madras High Court: Father’s name in the birth certificate is optional- Details
The Madras High Court has ruled that there is no legal obligation on the part of a mother to disclose the name of the father at the time of registering her child’s birth.
The Madras High Court ruled out it will be sufficient for women, who go for intrauterine insemination, to file a sworn affidavit that the child was born from her womb.
Justice M.S. Ramesh said that women who bring up children with their own income source could not be compelled to name the deserters in birth certificates.
The Madras High Court Justice M.S. Ramesh pointed out that neither the Births and Deaths Act of 1969, a Central enactment, nor the Tamil Nadu Registration of Births and Deaths Rules of 2000, framed by the State government by exercising powers conferred on it under the Act, requires the father’s name to be recorded in the birth register maintained by local bodies.
