By K.C.Vijayan, Law Correspondent

MORE babies are being born here without their fathers named on their birth certificates.

The numbers, on a march north for the last three years, are taken as an indication of the number of illegitimate births.

Last year, there were 561 such births, up from 495 in 2006 and and 481 cases in 2005.

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