Panaji: The Bombay high court directed the chief officer of Margao Municipal Council (MMC) to grab into tale afresh an utility from a woman to reconstruct her birth narrative.The chief officer in 2023 rejected the woman’s utility for reconstruction of her birth narrative relationship support to 1971.After the HC issued the chief officer a sight, he acknowledged that the birth records of the 54-year-aged woman possess been verified and that her live birth narrative became as soon as now now not traceable, because the records possess been destroyed.The chief officer added that birth and death registration records from 1971 to 1976 possess been in a mutilated condition in his scheme of industrial. He got affirmation from South Goa District Successfully being facility that a story of live birth became as soon as sent to the municipality on the time.
“The chief officer shall then grab into tale the utility and, since there is now a sound narrative of live birth furnished by the Hospicio health center for the birth of the petitioner, the chief officer shall reconstruct the records of birth and make entry of the birth of the petitioner by following the procedure of reconstruction of records as prescribed. This will seemingly be done within three weeks from receipt of the utility,” acknowledged justice Valmiki Menezes.
“On the narrative of the birth of the petitioner being reconstructed for 1971, the chief officer shall make a consequent entry within the narrative of birth and the new registration of birth which became as soon as effected within the title of the petitioner will seemingly be deleted, as obviously the petitioner can’t possess two registrations of her birth within the identical narrative. Deletion will seemingly be effected concurrently with the entry made on the reconstruction of narrative 1971,” the court acknowledged.
