The High Court of Karnataka has directed the Chief Commissioner of Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) and the Secretary of the E-governance Department of the State government to evolve a system of verifying the identification and details of people on their death based on e-KYC like usage of Aadhaar, etc., to make death certificate free from data entry errors.
Also, the Court said certificates like birth and death certificates are credentialised and digitised to enable e-verification and to be used in the DigiLocker application so that any third party or any authority before whom such certificates are produced, can easily verify the same to be genuine or not.
Justice Suraj Govindaraj issued the directions while allowing a petition filed one Sai Lakshmi, wife of late Lakshmi Kantha S.P. of Bagepalli in Chickballapur district. Petitioner’s husband had died at Jayadeva Institute of Cardiology in November 2022 and the BBMP had issued a death certificate based on the information uploaded in the e-janma portal by the hospital.
