law: Registration of Births and Deaths Act, 1969
  11.
  
  Informant to sign the register.-
  Every
  
  person who has orally given to the Registrar any information required under
  
  this Act shall write in the register maintained in this behalf, his name,
  
  description and place of abode, and, if he cannot write, shall put his thumb
  
  mark in the register against his name, description and place of abode, the
  
  particulars being in Such a case entered by the Registrar.