Eliminating Mother’s Name In Degrees & Certificates Retrogressive, Rules Delhi HC

New Delhi: Degrees and certificates should have names of both mother and father, the Delhi High Court held in a recent order.

The high court issued an order in this regard after hearing a petition filed by a law graduate, Ritika Prasad. She complained that her BA LLB degree only displays her father’s name and requested the court to include her mother’s name in the degree.

The court was in complete agreement with the argument of Ritika. Highlighting the equality of recognition, the court ruled that eliminating the name of the mother in such documents would be “clearly retrogressive”.

“I am completely in agreement with the petitioner that there is no reasonable justification for mentioning the father’s name alone in any certificate relating to education or educational qualifications,” Justice Harishankar said in the order.

“It would be clearly retrogressive if educational certificates, degrees and other such documents reflect the name only of the father of a candidate, eliminating the name of the mother. The names of both parents should necessarily be reflected on the body of the certificate,” the order pointed out.