Foot Notes: 6. Provisions are found to have been made by Clause 11 of Children Act, 2048 that if a person who commits any action that is deemed as a crime as per law or if it is a child below ten years of age while committing that action, no punishment of any kinds is supposed to be given to him, and even on the condition of being below 16 years of age as well, punishment shall be less than that of an adult person. 1. Rachel Hodgkin and Peter Newell, Implementation Handbook for the Convention on the Rights of the Child, (UNICEF, 2007), p. 97 2. Article 6: “Everyone has the right to recognition everywhere as a person before the law.” 3. Article 24 (2): “Every child shall be registered immediately after birth and shall have a name.” 7. UNICEF, Innocent Digest, “Birth Registration: Right from the Start”, (Innocent Research Centre, Florence, Italy, 2005), p. 5 4. The child shall be registered immediately after birth and shall have the right from birth to a name, the right to acquire a nationality and, as far as possible, the right to know and be cared for by his or her parents.” 8. Including Tek Tamrakar on behalf of People’s Welfare Conservation Forum for the sake of Dalit Community Vs. including His Majesty’s Government, Secretariat of the Council of Ministers, Subject: Including Mandamus, N.L.M. 2062, Asoj, D.No. 7550, p. 680. 5. “The General Assembly… urges all state parties to… protect children in matters relating to registration, family relations and adoption or other forms of alternative care…” cited from http://www.un.org/en/ga/66/resolutions.html. 75 Compilation of Selected Decisions of Supreme Court on CITIZENSHIP and BIRTH REGISTRATION