Judge names child after estranged inter-faith couple take battle to HC

In an unusual case, the Kerala High Court has christened a child of an estranged couple belonging to different religions after they fought over the matter.

The court intervened after both father and mother, locked in a matrimonial dispute, were aggrieved by the "inaction" on the part of the municipality to issue a birth certificate in respect of their second child showing the name as per their respective wishes.

While the mother said the child was baptised as 'Johan Mani Sachin', the father claimed that the name that they agreed to was 'Abhinav Sachin.''