IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE, ANDHRA PRADESH AT HYDERABAD (Special Original Jurisdiction) WEDNESDAY, THE TWENTY FOURTH DAY OF JUNE TWO THOUSAND AND NINE PRESENT THE HON'BLE MR JUSTICE GODA RAGHURAM WRIT PETITION NO : 11704 of 2009 Between: Gade Tataji Rao, S/o. Late Venkata Rao, R/o. D.No.5-28/2, Opposite IBP Bunk, Yeleswaram (V) & Mandal, East Godavari District. ..... PETITIONER AND 1 The State Public Information Officer, HACA Bhavan, Saifabad, Hyderabad. 2 The District Collector, East Godavari district, Kakinada. 3 The Tahsildar, Y.Ramavaram Mandal, Y.Ramavaram Village, East Godavari District. .....RESPONDENT(S) Petition under Article 226 of the constitution of India praying that in the circumstances stated in the Affidavit filed herein the High Court will be pleased to to issue WRIT OF MANDAMUS or any other appropriate WRIT, ORDER OR DIRECTION directing the respondents 1 to 3 herein to issue the birth and death particulars of the petitioenrs late father Gade Venkata Rao who died in the year 1967 at y.Ramavaram Village by declaring the action of the respondent no.3 in not furnishing the birth and death particulars of the petitioners late father Gade Venkata Rao as arbitrary capricious and against to the principles of natural justice in the interest of justice and also pass Counsel for the Petitioner:MR.CHANDRA SEKHAR ILAPAKURTI Counsel for the Respondent No.: GP FOR REVENUE The Court made the following : ORDER: The singular grievance in this writ petition is that the respondents have not issued to him the birth and death certificate of the petitioner’s father Gade Venkat Rao who is said to have expired in 1967 at Y.Ramavaram village. On 4.5.2009, the petitioner (who is working as an MPEO in the Medical and Health Department at Rachapalli Primary Health Centre, Prathipadu mandal, East Godavari District) submitted an application to the 3rd respondent stating that his father Gade Venkat Rao died in 1967 at Y.Ramavaram village and that his birth and death particulars may be furnished. In the application of the petitioner, Late Gade Venkat Rao was said to have been 45 years old at the time of his death in 1967. It would appear that the 3rd respondent by an endorsement dt. 22.6.2009 has recorded that on verification, the births and deaths register of 1967 of Y.Ramavaram village is not available; Y.Ramavaram village was newly formed on 25.5.1985, carved out from the erstwhile Addategala Taluq; on enquiry in the village, it was learnt that Gade Venkat Rao never resided in the village and that the 1st husband of the petitioner’s mother Gade Satyavathi namely Gade Venkat Rao had previously resided in Addategala village and expired in the same village. For the aforesaid reasons, the 3rd respondent was unable to furnish the particulars of the birth and death of the petitioner’s father Gade Venkat Rao. In the light of the facts revealed from the endorsement dt. 22.6.2009 of the 3rd respondent, no relief could be granted in the writ petition. Accordingly, the writ petition is dismissed. However, the petitioner is at liberty and shall be permitted to verify the births and deaths Registers of Y.Ramavaram village or Addategal village to ascertain whether there is any record of the birth and death of his father Gade Venkat Rao. There shall be no order as to costs. __________________ GODA RAGHURAM,J 24.6.2009. KRB. THE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE GODA RAGHURAM WRIT PETITION No. 11704 of 2009. Dated: 24.6.2009.