law: Registration of Births and Deaths Act, 1969
  21.Power
  
  of Registrar to obtain information regarding births or death.-
  The
  
  Registrar may either orally or in writing require any person to furnish any
  
  information within his knowledge in connection with a birth or death in the
  
  locality within which such person resides and that person shall be bound to
  
  comply with such requisition.