Tavishi Perara may be India’s first ‘child without a father’, or that’s how her birth certificate will read, thanks to Madras high court’s direction to authorities to keep the column blank.
The relief, however, did not come easy for the child’s mother, Mathumitha Ramesh, who had to wage two rounds of litigation to ensure her daughter got a birth certificate without the father’s name.
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