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The High Court of Karnataka has said that whenever any application is filed before the Registrar of Births and Deaths (RoBD) for death certificates of any person, the details of all the properties which are in the name of such person should be automatically fetched from the database of the sub-registrar’s office and the Revenue Department, should be made available to the RoBD.
Even the records in hospitals regarding the births and deaths should also be integrated with the RoBD, the court said.
Identity details
The court also said that the identity details, like PAN, Aadhaar, electoral ID, and other identity cards that may be available, should also be made available and integrated with the database of the RoBD.
Justice Suraj Govindaraj passed the order while dealing with a case of one Mahadevaiah of Tumakuru, who had obtained the death certificate of his mother several years after her demise by giving a false date of death — ten years prior to her actual death, even though she had died in 1985.
The court directed the Principal Secretaries of the departments of E-governance, Revenue, Urban Development, and Municipal Administration to come out with the plan within six weeks to integrate these details.
False memo
The court also found that Mahadevaiah had obtained an order from the Lok Adalat for the issuance of the death certificate in the absence of revenue authorities by presenting a false “joint memo” before the adalat, giving the impression that the revenue authorities had accepted his claim on the mother’s death certificate.
On securing the death certificate, which stated that his mother had died in 1975, he had questioned the sale deed executed by her in 1979 in favour of one Siddalingaiah. The falsification of the year of death came to light during the litigation between Siddalingaiah and Mahadevaiah.
Published - June 18, 2025 08:44 pm IST
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