law: Registration of Births and Deaths Act, 1969
  23.Penalties.-
  (1)
  
  Any person who -
  (a) fails without reasonable cause to give any information which it is his
  
  duty to give under any of the provisions of sections 8 and 9; or
  (b) gives or causes to be given, for the purpose of being inserted in
  
  any register of births and deaths, any information which he knows or believes
  
  to be false regarding any of the particulars required to be known and
  
  registered; or
  (c) refuses to write his name, description and place of abode or to put his
  
  thumb mark in the register as required by section 11, shall be punishable with
  
  fine which may extend to fifty rupees.
  (2)
  
  Any Registrar or Sub-Registrar who neglects or refuses, without reasonable
  
  cause, to register any birth or death occurring in his jurisdiction or to
  
  submit any returns as required by sub-section (1) of section 19 shall be
  
  punishable with fine which may extend to fifty rupees.
  (3)
  
  Any medical practitioner who neglects or refuses to issue a certificate under
  
  sub-section (3) of section 10 and any person who neglects or refuses to deliver
  
  such certificate shall be punishable with fine which may extend to fifty
  
  rupees.
  (4) Any person who without reasonable cause, contravenes any provision of this
  
  Act for the contravention of which no penalty is provided for in this section
  
  shall be punishable with fine which may extend to ten rupees.
  (5)
  
  Notwithstanding anything contained in the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1898 (5
  
  of 1898.), an offence under this section shall be tried summarily by a
  
  magistrate.