Neutral Citation No. - 2025:AHC-LKO:18662-DB Court No. - 2 Case :- WRIT - C No. - 1920 of 2025 Petitioner :- Sanjay Kumar Gupta Respondent :- District Magistrate Bahraich And 3 Others Counsel for Petitioner :- Narendra Gupta Counsel for Respondent :- C.S.C.,Rakesh Pratap Singh Hon'ble Rajan Roy,J. Hon'ble Om Prakash Shukla,J. Heard Shri Narendra Gupta, learned counsel for the petitioner, learned Additional Chief Standing Counsel for the State and Shri Rakesh Pratap Singh, learned counsel for the opposite parties no. 3 and 4. The petitioner has applied for issuance of a death certificate, however, to the opposite party no. 2- Additional District Magistrate (Finance and Revenue), Bahraich instead of applying it to the Executive Officer, Nagar Palika Parishad, Bahraich who is the Registrar of deaths and births under the Registration of Births and Deaths Act, 1969 or whosoever of the Nagar Palika may have been authorized by the State Government under the proviso to Section 67 of the Registration of Births and Deaths Act, 1969. Let the opposite party no. 4 look into the matter and take a decision on the application of the petitioner after getting the facts verified, as, it is stated by the petitioner that he has submitted proof of death of his father and relies upon the documents annexed as Annexure No. 5 to the writ petition and certain other documents, which, the petitioner shall bring to the notice of the opposite party no. 4. Let this exercise be completed within a period of six weeks. It is, however, made clear that if Rule 9 of the U.P. Registration of Birth and Death Rules, 2002 is attracted, then, the petitioner will have to approach the concerned authority mentioned therein and the said authority shall consider and decide the application of the petitioner accordingly within a period of six weeks. With the aforesaid observations/directions, the writ petition is disposed of. . (Om Prakash Shukla,J.) (Rajan Roy,J.) Order Date :- 3.4.2025/R.K.P. Digitally signed by :- RAJ KUMAR PATEL High Court of Judicature at Allahabad, Lucknow Bench