Copied from an earlier topic on Pallavi's parentage:
Here's what I learned from the two birth certificates on screen:
- Siddhesh's birthday is April 4, 1986.
- Dilip and Seema Sawant are Siddhesh's parents.
- Pallavi's birthday is May 20, 1996. So, she turned 25 on the day she left Raghav to go to Kolhapur. Raghav met Sunny that day.
- Both parents are blank on Pallavi's birth certificate.
From an internet search, I learned this about birth certificates in India:
- If Dilip and Seema Sawant had legally adopted Pallavi, their names would have been entered on her birth certificate, just as if they were her birth parents.
- Pallavi's adoption would have required written consent from Siddhesh (age 5+).
- The birth certificate is different from the birth reporting form, which Sunny hasn't seen.
- In case of adoption of a child of unknown birth parents, the birth reporting form will have blanks for the birth parents, but the adoptive parents' names will appear elsewhere on the birth reporting form, and on the birth certificate.
Why would the birth certificate have blanks for both of Pallavi's parents? Maybe if a child of unknown birth parents doesn't get adopted, the birth certificate is issued without parents' names?
For example, if Dilip and Seema Sawant found Pallavi on the temple steps, and they died in a car accident (suspected mob hit) before they could adopt her, she has no legal parents.
Or, Dilip and Seema Sawant became pregnant through in vitro fertilization using donor sperm and donor egg, and the clinic failed to secure the donors' legal surrender of parental rights ... nah.
Did Siddhesh and Pallavi grow up in a relative's home, or in an orphanage? Was Siddhesh ever the legal guardian of Pallavi?
If Pallavi is Krishna Rao's daughter, she'll have the same family name as Raghav. Could their marriage be sagotra?
By the way, in one of my fan fictions, Raghav realizes what happened on Pallavi's birthday.