Ahmedabad: A father wanted to rename his two-and-a-half-year-old daughter for her good health, as an astrologer had proposed, but the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) refused to make the change in the child’s birth certificate. Now, the Gujarat high court has directed the AMC to change the child’s name, using its power under section 15 of the Registration of Births and Deaths Act.
The father had filed a petition requesting the court to direct the civic body’s registrar of birth and death to change his daughter’s name from letter ‘A’ to ‘Kh’.
The petitioner’s advocate, Jaimin Mehta, said the names of all the family members begin with the alphabet ‘A’. Going by this tradition, the man named his daughter accordingly and got it registered with the civic body.
Since the child was not keeping well, the family consulted an astrologer, who prepared a horoscope for the baby and suggested that her name should be changed based on her sun sign and should begin with the letters ‘Kh’. When the family filed an application for name change at Jodhpur ward, where the child’s birth was registered, the officials refused, saying it was not a mistake on part of the civic body.
The family then approached the registrar’s office, which also declined the request.
In its submission to the high court, AMC said the child’s name was properly written in English and Hindi and her father had signed the document. There was no mistake on part of the clerk.
However, when the father told the court the reason for the child’s renaming, Justice V D Nanavati ordered AMC to make the change, as requested by the family.
Since the child was not keeping well, the family consulted an astrologer, who prepared a horoscope for the baby and suggested that her name should be changed based on her sun sign.
The father had filed a petition requesting the court to direct the civic body’s registrar of birth and death to change his daughter’s name from letter ‘A’ to ‘Kh’.
The petitioner’s advocate, Jaimin Mehta, said the names of all the family members begin with the alphabet ‘A’. Going by this tradition, the man named his daughter accordingly and got it registered with the civic body.
Since the child was not keeping well, the family consulted an astrologer, who prepared a horoscope for the baby and suggested that her name should be changed based on her sun sign and should begin with the letters ‘Kh’. When the family filed an application for name change at Jodhpur ward, where the child’s birth was registered, the officials refused, saying it was not a mistake on part of the civic body.
The family then approached the registrar’s office, which also declined the request.
In its submission to the high court, AMC said the child’s name was properly written in English and Hindi and her father had signed the document. There was no mistake on part of the clerk.
However, when the father told the court the reason for the child’s renaming, Justice V D Nanavati ordered AMC to make the change, as requested by the family.
Since the child was not keeping well, the family consulted an astrologer, who prepared a horoscope for the baby and suggested that her name should be changed based on her sun sign.