BHOPAL : A 12-year-old boy has three fathers. And it is official. It is written on his birth certificate The incident has been reported from Dindori district. A 16-year-old girl was raped by the three persons Malle Singh, Om Prakash and Basant Das in the year 2003. The three culprits were charged by the police and were convicted for the crime, by the court. On 15th March 2014, the girl delivered a baby boy. He went to aganwari, then to primary school, but when the boy wanted to get admission in the 6th standard to a nearby school, the principal refused to give admission in the school following the blank space in front of the father’s name.
In the mark sheet of the 5th class, the name of the father was not mentioned. The principal objected and asked the child to bring the birth certificate with the name of the father.
The mother approached to the gram panchayat secretary, to obtain the birth certificate of the child. The panchayat secretary wrote down all the three names on the birth certificate, which again brought embarrassing moment for the family.
The CEO of Janpad panchayat Dindori, SK Gupta informed Free Press that in the birth certificate only mother’s name is sufficient, but the principal of the school unnecessarily demanded the name of the child’s father.
He added that the panchayat secretary has unknowingly written the three names. He added that an application has been filed in the court of tehsildar to rectify the birth certificate.
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