Overview
- The state on Wednesday directed the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation to cancel 19,734 birth-certificate corrections it found were made without following legal procedure and to verify each case while preserving original records.
- Mayor Ritu Tawde has demanded a state standard operating procedure for handling major amendments and asked Mumbai Police for an action-taken report on FIRs within 48 hours.
- An internal BMC probe reported 87,347 certificates issued through an outdated SAP system between 2024 and 2026, a process that bypassed the mandated Civil Registration System and produced thousands of corrections with no supporting documents.
- Civic authorities have suspended several health officers, registered multiple FIRs at local stations, and Mumbai Police formed a crime-branch Special Investigation Team led by Joint Commissioner Lakhami Gautam to pursue criminal charges.
- Counts and classifications remain fluid as officials complete case-by-case checks, with the cancellations likely to affect people whose records were altered and to trigger further administrative and legal reviews once the SIT and BMC submit their reports.