Section 212B(a) in The Howrah Municipal Corporation Act, 1980
(a)in the case of an illegitimate child, no person shall, as father of such child, be required to give any information under this Act containing the particulars of birth of such child, and the officer empowered under this section shall not enter in the register the name of any person as father of such child except as the joint request of the mother and of the person acknowledging himself to be the father of such child, and such person shall, in such case, sign the register together with the mother;
