Madurai

The Madurai bench of Madras High Court on Tuesday directed the Director of School Education and Assistant Director, Government Examinations to respond in a plea seeking to prefix the first letter of mother as initial of her daughter. The petition was filed by M Pothumponnu of Kadavur taluk, Karur as officials advised her daughter P Kaviya to provide her father’s name as initial for availing a scholarship. She said that her husband abandoned them and don’t want to use his name as initials. Justice Senthilkumar Ramamoorthy directed the authorities to take necessary action within 30 days.

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