A 22 year old woman has filed a petition in the Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court alleging that a man named Darwin is threatening her to live with him based on a fake marriage certificate issued by the District Registrar and Sub-Registrar of Thoohthukudi by taking the help of a Christian priest named Franklin.
The woman had come to know of Darwin when she was in class 12. She is now studying engineering at a private college in Coimbatore. She stated in her petition that Darwin is threatening her to live with him by using a marriage certificate that stated that she and Darwin were married. Through an RTI filed it was revealed that Darwin had got a marriage certificate issued by registering at the Keezhur Sub-Registrar office using fake documents stating that he had got married to the woman on August 8, 2017 at the Lourduammal Church in Thoothukudi.
Darwin had taken the help of a Christian priest named Franklin to get the fake documents ready. Upon inquiry in the Church it was found that no such marriage had taken place on the said date.
The woman has also stated in her petition that she was not even in town on that day as she had gone to Coimbatore give her exams, for which her online admit card stands as proof.
Darwin is said to be harassing her from January of this year using the fake marriage certificate he had got.
She has asked the High Court to issue directions to cancel the marriage certificate given and take action against the accused.
The Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court has directed the Thoothukudi District Registrar, Sub-Registrar of Keezhur, Darwin and the Christian priest Franklin to respond to the issue by November 30.