India, Dec. 1 -- The Bombay High Court on Wednesday allowed a 32-year-old man to change his name in his school, college and board records after noting multiple mismatches in his documents. The division bench of justices Ravindra Ghuge and Ashwin Bhobe was hearing a petition pending for 14 years, in which the man sought to correct his name from Gregory Thomas to Millind Vinod Seth in his birth records and educational certificates.

Seth, who had first approached the court when he turned 18, explained that his parents got married in a church in 1992, and at the time his father converted to Christianity and changed his name. However, the petitioner's birth certificate issued in 1993 recorded him under a Hindu name, and his father under his o...