citizen of Nepal by descent and is continuously
residing within the border of Nepal upon being
born in Nepal
b)
Office seems to create the procedure complicated
and confusing.
In both the character certificate of passing out grade
8 and the mark sheet of the same grade submitted
by the petitioner, father’s name of this petitioner
has been mentioned as Badri Prasad Khanal and
Bishal Nagar-4, Kathmandu has been mentioned in
the address, and from the identity card provided by
Samaj Kalyan Kendra Briddhashram also, it is seen to
have mentioned the citizenship No. 3640/025 Kath.
of Badri Prasad Khanal. The citizenship of C.C.No.
9194 of Jayanti Shikari, mother of the petitioner,
Gopal Khanal, issued by District Administration
Office, Makwanpur on date 2044/9/20 (January 4,
1988 A.D.) has been seen; but no dispute is seen
that the petitioner’s mother is a Nepalese citizen.
Precedent is seen to have been maintained by this
Court as “No citizen can be deprived of obtaining
citizenship certificate by not understanding the
Constitution, law and covenant on human rights
or making wrong logic and meaning by the official
prescribed. The matter that hardship has to be
faced to obtain citizenship certificate cannot be
acceptable. If any one of father or mother of s person
is a citizen of Nepal, such person can obtain the
citizenship of Nepal;” (Having petitioner including
Sabina Damai versus including the Government
of Nepal, Office of the Prime Minister and the
Council of Ministers, case including mandamus
D.No. 8557). Hence, it is seen that the petitioner
can obtain the citizenship of Nepal if he wished
to obtain citizenship certificate by mother’s name.
however, the petitioner, Gopal Khanal, is seen to
have wished to obtain citizenship by mentioning
father’s name, surname; upon looking towards
it, this petitioner, Gopal Khanal, is seen to have
claimed by submitting even the identity card having
C.C.No. 3640/025 of Badri Prasad Khanal, father
of the petitioner, Gopal Khanal, offered by Samaj
Kalyan Kendra Briddhashram; hence, unless it is
justified otherwise, it is seen that this Badri Prasad
Khanal is a citizen of Nepal, and the No. of tattered
condition as per that is seen in the citizenship
record of District Administration Office; hence,
petitioner claim does not appear to have been
otherwise in the present condition. Mother, Jayanti
Shikari, is seen to have specifically claimed that
Badri Prasad Khanal is the father of Gopal Khanal,
the petitioner, and that being a Nepalese citizen, he
has got C.C.No. 3640/025, and that she is ready to
identify in the office upon that description. From
the aforementioned analyzed ground, it is seen in
prima facie, that this petitioner, Gopal Khanal, being
a child of Nepalese citizens, has the right to obtain
citizenship of Nepal to be provided by the state,
unless justified otherwise.
Identification made at the spot of spot
investigation in the format of Schedule-4 by
three Nepalese citizens who have obtained
Nepalese citizenship certificate, who are
residing in the Ward concerned.
After the petitioner could not submit the
recommendation or birth registration done by
the local body concerned to expose birthplace
and relationship, it is not seen that the opponent,
District Administration Office, Kathmandu has
furthered any process towards spot investigation
of the procedure ensured by Rule 3 (2) of Nepal
Citizenship Rule, 2063. From the replica copy
submitted along with the present petition, it is seen
that for the sake of obtaining Nepal citizenship of the
son, Gopal Khanal, the petitioner mother, Jayanti
Shikari, has furnished application to Chief District
Officer, District Administration Office, Kathmandu
in the format as per Schedule-1 of Citizenship Rule,
2063 by mentioning father’s name, surname and
father’s citizenship certificate; and, the statement of
the opponent, District Administration Office, also
does not seem that the petitioner has not furnished
application as per the aforementioned Schedule-1.
Moreover, application was furnished in order get the
record of the C.C.No.3640/025, Kathmandu of the
father of the petitioner, Gopal Khanal, copied; but,
upon the application that record of C.C.No. should
be copied, it is seen that the District Administration
Office, Kathmandu has informed the C. that the
record of the petitioner, Gopal Khanal, of No. 3640 of
the date of 025 B.S. (1968/69 A.D.) has been tattered
and torn off; hence, it cannot be provided to the
petitioner. However, upon the application furnished
as per Schedule-1, no order or decision is seen to
have been made; hence, it is essential to give order
or decide, regarding whether the citizenship is to be
provided or not or by examining as per law if it is to
be additionally examined, for the sake of its surety.
If there is ground to obtain citizenship by fulfilling
the procedure to obtain citizenship certificate as per
Rule 3 (1) and Rule 3 (2) of Nepal Citizenship Rule,
2063, citizenship is to be issued to the applicant,
who asks for Nepalese citizenship, and if Citizenship
certificate cannot be issued, decision is to be made
as per that; but, on the ground that record has not
been recovered because the record of the father’s
citizenship has been tattered and torn off or
though it has been mentioned in the affidavit that
information of the condition of making citizenship
by new process of unclear description, it is seen that
without giving order or making decision regarding
the claim of the petitioner, the information of oral
description or the act of returning the petitioner
on behalf of the opponent District Administration
Petitioner, Gopal Khanal, has wanted to obtain
citizenship by descent by including father’s name
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Compilation of Selected Decisions of Supreme Court on
CITIZENSHIP and BIRTH REGISTRATION
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