CHENNAI: A village administrative officer (VAO) has been booked for issuing a death certificate for a 50-year-old woman who disappeared from her house in 2021 but is alive. Police booked the woman ...

CHENNAI: The food and civil services department’s move to strictly enforce the submission of marriage or death certificate, along with field verification, to remove names from ration cards has ...

A VAO and a woman's son have been booked for issuing a fraudulent death certificate for the alive woman, Lakshmi, who went missing in 2021. Her son used the certificate to transfer ancestral property.