On 19/07/2022, The HMJ PV Kunhikrishnan of the High Court of Kerala in Writ Petition (Civil) No. 4262 of 2022 titled XXX & Anr. Vs. The Registrar of Births and Deaths & Ors., has delivered a very significant and reforming judgment reiterating the position taken by the Hon’ble Apex Court and other Hon’ble High Courts regarding the rights of single mothers raising their children alone and the rights of those children with respect to the issuance of their birth certificates and other documents without the name of their father, wherein, the Petitioner-son was conceived by the Petitioner-mother, while she was a minor under mysterious circumstance by an unidentified person. Therefore the father's name of the Petitioner-son happened to be recorded differently in different documents. The name of the Petitioner-mother is correctly recorded in all identification and education certificates. Since the paternal name of the Petitioner-son appears differently in different documents and th...