THE HON’BLE MR JUSTICE L. NARASIMHA REDDY Writ Petition No.4170 of 2011 ORDER: The husband of the petitioner is said to have died on 07.01.1993. She submitted application to the Assistant Medical Office of Health Registrar, Births and Deaths, Circle No.2, Uppal, the 2nd respondent herein, with a request to furnish death certificate. The application was rejected with certain endorsements. The petitioner feels aggrieved by the same and seeks a direction to the 2nd respondent to issue death certificate. Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned standing counsel for the Corporation. The Corporation is under obligation to maintain vital statistics, such as registration and issue of births and deaths. The procedure prescribed under the Births and Deaths Act and the Rules made thereunder is to be followed in this regard. If the application is made soon after the death of an individual, within the limits of the Corporation, no problem would have arisen. 15 years after the alleged date of death of her husband that the petitioner submitted her application. Initially she enclosed the certificate issued by Hindu Smashana Vatika Prabhandhak Samiti, Kachiguda, which discloses that the death occurred in Ram Murthy, Hospital, while undergoing treatment for cancer. The 2nd respondent passed an order of rejection on 30.10.2010 informing the petitioner that the death did not occur within his jurisdiction, obviously by referring to the location of the hospital. Thereafter, the petitioner filed an application without making reference to the death in hospital and stating that the death occurred in the house. This time the 2nd respondent passed an order of rejection on 01.12.2010 observing that the death cannot be registered for the first time after 15 years and the petitioner has to take steps for registration of the death. Another application appears to have been made by the petitioner almost on the same lines. Identical order was passed on 28.12.2010. The petitioner did not pursue proper remedy, in the context of obtaining death certificate. The 2nd respondent could have acceded to the request of the petitioner, had death been registered on earlier occasion. Admittedly such registration did not take place. Even now the petitioner can make an effort to get the death of her husband registered in accordance with law. Once it is registered, she can submit application for death certificate. Hence, the writ petition is disposed of, leaving it open to the petitioner to pursue the remedies in accordance with law. There shall be no order as costs. _____________________ L. NARASIMHA REDDY, J. Dt.11.03.2011. GJ