MUMBAI: Parents embroiled in matrimonial disputes can go to any extent to satisfy their ego, the Bombay High Court has said dismissing a petition filed by a woman seeking only her name to be mentioned as parent in the child’s birth record.Neither of the parents can exercise any right in respect of their child’s birth record, Justices Mangesh Patil and Y G Khobragade of the HC’s Aurangabad bench said in the March 28 order while deprecating such petitions.The petition is a classic example of how a matrimonial dispute is a genesis for multiple litigations, the HC said and imposed a cost of Rs 5,000 on the petitioner, noting the plea was a sheer abuse of the process and waste of the court’s precious time.The 38-year-old woman had filed the petition, seeking a direction to the Aurangabad municipal authorities to record her name in the birth record of her child as a single parent and issue a birth certificate with only her name.The woman in her plea claimed her estranged husband was addicted to certain vices and had never even seen the face of his child.The high court, however, said that just because the father is addicted to vices, the mother cannot insist as a right to be mentioned as a single parent in the child’s birth certificate.”Neither of the parents can exercise any right in respect of the child’s birth record,” it said.
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