IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB & HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Civil Writ Petition No.1354 of 2011 Date of Decision : January 24, 2011. Parveen Kaur @ Veena Rani and another .....Petitioners versus The State of Punjab and others .....Respondents CORAM : HON'BLE MR.JUSTICE SURYA KANT. Present : Mr.Vinod Bhardwaj, Advocate, for the petitioners. Ms.Sudeepti Sharma, DAG, Punjab. -.- 1. Whether Reporters of Local papers may be allowed to see the judgment? 2. To be referred to the Reporters or not? 3. Whether the judgment should be reported in the Digest? --- Surya Kant, J. (Oral) Notice of motion. Ms.Sudeepti Sharma, learned Deputy Advocate General, Punjab, accepts notice on behalf of the respondents. Let four copies of the writ petition be handed over to the learned State counsel during the course of day. In view of the nature of order which I propose to pass, there is no need to seek any counter reply from the respondents at this stage. The petitioners are wife and husband respectively. They seek a mandamus to direct the respondent-authorities to issue a fresh birth certificate of their adopted daughter by incorporating their names as her C.W.P.No .1354 of 2011 2 mother and father, respectively and also to change the name of their child from Tamanna to Prinyanka. It appears that the petitioners submitted an application on 14.4.2008 (Annexure P-4) for the afore-stated relief on the basis of Adoption Deed dated 14.1.2003 (Annexure P-2). The said application was returned as it was submitted in a wrong office and the petitioners were advised to contact the office of the Civil Surgeon at Jalandhar. Thereafter, the petitioners have submitted a fresh application dated 8.1.2009 (Annexure P-6) in the office of the Additional District Registrar, Birth & Deaths, Jalandhar but no decision whatsoever has been taken thereupon so far. Having heard learned counsel for the parties and considering the nature of relief sought in this writ petition, I deem it appropriate to dispose of the same with a direction to respondent Nos.2 to 4 to consider the above stated request made by the petitioners and issue an appropriate birth certificate to them within a period of two months from the date of receiving a certified copy of this order. Ordered accordingly. Dasti. January 24, 2011 (SURYA KANT) Mohinder JUDGE