A couple, who had not registered their marriage officially as it was not mandatory when they got married, have now got it officially registered 53 years after their wedding, and years after their passing away, thanks to a request to the Local Self Government department from their mentally challenged son.
C. Bhaskaran Nair and T. Kamalam, natives of Sekharipuram in Palakkad, had got married at the Subramaniam Swamy temple at Kodumb on June 4, 1969. However, they had not registered their marriage as it was not mandatory then. Kamalam passed away in 1998 and Bhaskaran Nair in 2015, after which the family pension for ex-service persons ceased being credited to their only son T. Gopakumar.
