Parents may be illegitimate, not children: Karnataka High Court

The child has no role in his own birth

Children of illegitimate parents have the same rights as other children: High Court

BENGALURU: The Karnataka High Court made an important observation during the hearing of a case. The High Court said that the parents may be illegitimate but not the offspring to be born through them as they have no role in his birth.

The Karnataka High Court said that it is not the fault of the child born through illegitimate parents as the child has no role in his own birth. Judge BV Nagaratna and Judge H. Sanjeev Kumar's bench quashed the order of the single judge bench.

That of a single judge bench. A man named Santosh had rejected an application in which he applied for a job in the government Bangalore Electricity Supply Company (BESCOM) on compassionate grounds after the death of his father in 2014. Her father worked as a lineman in the company.

Although the applicant was born through a second wife despite being the father's first wife, the company dismissed the application as unnatural. He then appealed to the High Court, which was dismissed by a single judge bench. Now a two-judge bench of the High Court had quashed the decision of the single judge and allowed the petitioner's appeal.