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Invoking Karna’s struggle for paternal recognition, court orders to add father’s name to 13-year-old IVF child’s records

June 05, 2026 11:04 am

The court was hearing a couple’s challenge to the refusal of local authorities to add the man’s name to the birth certificate of his elder daughter, currently aged 13, who was born through IVF before the couple married.

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SIT to probe racket supplying fake birth certificates to illegal foreigners

May 05, 2026 7:25 pm

In February, Mumbai police registered an FIR against two former BMC medical health department officials who allegedly approved birth certificates without verifying the required documentation.

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Does minor child taking mother’s surname affect father’s legal rights? Here’s what Karnataka High Court says

March 05, 2026 2:08 pm

The presumption that a child must invariably bear the father’s surname is not a constitutional mandate but a social convention, the Karnataka High Court held.

Express Impact: Mother's name now a must to download birth certificate from PMC site

December 20, 2025 1:20 am

To collect a birth certificate from a PMC office, a citizen needs to provide ID as well as prove their relation to the person whose birth certificate is to be collected.

Supreme Court upheld conviction of a man in a case in which a minor girl was raped 32 years ago in 1993.

Why Supreme Court sent man to jail for minor's rape in 1993

December 10, 2025 8:48 pm

Supreme Court on rape case 1993, Kuldeep Singh rape verdict: Relying on the birth certificate issued by the additional district registrar, birth and death, Jalandhar, the court ruled that a birth certificate issued by the public authority holds more “evidentiary value" than any school certificate.

Haryana clerk issues birth certificate for dead person, faces Rs 6,000 fine

July 18, 2025 11:15 am

A Faridabad resident was issued a birth certificate instead of the death certificate of his father. On March 22, the applicant had applied for the death certificate of his father, who died on March 19.

Azam, wife Tanzeen, son Abdullah sentenced to 7-year imprisonment in forgery case

October 18, 2023 10:41 pm

All three taken into custody; SP chief says Azam being harassed for being a Muslim

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‘While many congratulated, my own family didn’t accept me’: First recipient of transgender birth certificate in Rajasthan

July 22, 2023 3:33 pm

On July 19, Shekhawat became the first transgender person in Rajasthan to be issued a birth certificate in which the gender is recorded as transgender. In her old birth certificate, her gender was marked as male.