Court Allows Woman's Birth Registration 46 Years After She Was Born

The woman had moved high court after Revenue Divisional Officer, Adoor in Pathanamthitta, cancelled the sanction granted earlier for her belated birth registration by relying on her Baptism certificate, which purportedly showed an incorrect date of birth -- May 9, 1975.

The Kerala High Court has paved the way for a woman to belatedly register her birth with the Panchayat of the area, where she was born 46 years ago.

The woman had moved the high court after the Revenue Divisional Officer, Adoor in Pathanamthitta, cancelled the sanction granted earlier for her belated birth registration by relying on her Baptism certificate, which purportedly showed an incorrect date of birth -- May 9, 1975.

The officer, however, did not rely on her school records, Aadhaar, PAN, Passport, marriage certificate and Voter ID card which indicated her date of birth as May 21, 1975, she said.

The high court set aside the cancellation order, saying it was "difficult to conceive a situation where a public official feels that the entries in public documents like the Aadhaar card, the Electoral Identity card, the PAN card and the SSLC book should be ignored and overlooked and an entry in the Baptism register of a Church has to be treated as the primary evidence regarding the date of birth of a person".