Validity of affidavit by a woman not acceptable to government!

The other day I had to visit the village office to get a "same person certificate " in respect of my son, which name has been spelt differently in birth certificate and other records. The online application submitted through the Akshaya centre was rejected with a direction to appear before the Village Officer with the concerned documents and affidavit from two neighbours! I got the affidavits signed by two neighbours (my sister in law and brother in law)to the effect that the persons named in the birth certificate and passport , though differently spelt, are the same. When I presented these to the village officer, she immediately prepared a report to be submitted to the tahsildar, as the certificate was to be produced outside the state. However, before signing the report she scrutinised the documents submitted by me once again and observed that one of the affidavits was signed by a lady. She very politely requested me to get another affidavit signed by a male neighbour as THE AFFIDAVIT FROM A LADY WAS NOT ACCEPTABLE. I was totally taken aback by this statement. However, since I was the person in need, I came back, got an affidavit signed by another male member and submitted the same for getting the report from the Village Officer. With that I could get the required certificate from the Tahsildar too.

But, isn't is a gender discrimination to suggest that an affidavit signed by a lady is not acceptable to the State Government and even a lady officer has to abide by this dictat, without any objection? Are our feminine liberalists unaware of this stipulation by the Government? Why nobody has raised any objection to such a blatant gender discrimination?? In fact I posed this question to the lady village officer herself, but she did not have a answer . I would like to know the reaction of others to this