Observing that a child cannot be made to suffer due to the mistake of parents in failing to include name in the birth certificate within the prescribed period, the High Court of Karnataka has directed the authorities to issue an amended birth certificate to a 23-year-old woman by inserting her name, which was left blank as her parents had not given her name when she was born.
Direction to registrar
Also, the court directed the Registrar of Births and Deaths, Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP), to incorporate the time limit prescribed under Rule 10 of the Karnataka Registration of Births and Deaths Rules, 1999, for including the child’s name in the birth certificates, which are originally issued only with the child’s gender, date and place of birth, names of the parents but leaving child’s name blank.
