Right to keep or change a name is vested in every citizen: Allahabad HC

The Allahabad High Court (Allahabad HC), dealing with an order, of the Regional Secretary of Madhyamik Shiksha Parishad of Bareilly, Uttar Pradesh, rejecting the applicant’s plea seeking a change of his name in the high school and intermediate school certificates, held that “the fundamental right to keep or change a name is vested in every citizen by virtue of Article 19(1)(a) and Article 21 of the Constitution of India.”