is no base and reason to maintain this Office an
opponent; it is not right to issue order on the name
of this Office as per the claim. While looking upon
the claim of the female-petitioner, though the
female-petitioner herself is a Nepalese citizen, it
is seen that the children, who are born from her
after she has got married to a foreign citizen, are
supposed to fulfill three basic conditions as per Subclause (7) of Article 8 of the Interim Constitution of
Nepal, 2063. First, that person must have been born
in Nepal; second, must be continuously residing in
Nepal since getting birth; and third, must justify the
convincing base of the matter that he/she has not
obtained the citizenship from the father’s country
on the basis of his/her father’s citizenship. If the
children born from the Nepalese woman who has
got married to a foreign man arrive to make demand
of the Nepalese citizenship certificates by fulfilling
the aforementioned conditions and following the
processes and procedures prescribed by of law,
citizenships shall have to be conferred by the
authorized body or lien on posts upon fulfilling the
processes and procedures of the law. The petitioner
has not been able to lay claim, stating that she has
fulfilled the aforementioned conditions, processes
and procedures but the citizenship certificate
has been refused to be conferred or has not been
conferred by authorized body or lien on posts. In
this situation, Mandamus cannot be issued stating
to confer the citizenship certificate as per her claim.
Hence, from including the aforementioned base
and reason, the order as per claim cannot be issued
on the name of this Office; hence, the writ petition
should be dismissed.
3.
to Home Ministry for the sake of decision through
the letter of this Office of the date of 2064/11/29
(March 12, 2008 A.D.) and no information pertaining
to the action carried out by the Home Ministry is
seen to have been received in this Office, and no
information about that is seen to have been provided
to this Office by the applicant as well; hence, the writ
petition against this Office is revocable; it is humbly
requested to get it revoked.
5.
There are provisions in Sub-clause (2) of Clause 5
of Nepal Citizenship Act, 2063, that in connection
to the sons and daughters born from Nepalese
citizen woman married with foreign citizen, if he/
she has been permanently residing in Nepal upon
being born in Nepal, and if he/she has not obtained
the citizenship of a foreign country on the basis
of father’s citizenship, he/she can be conferred
naturalized citizenship as prescribed, and in Subclause (3) that the person, who wants to obtain
the naturalized citizenship as per Sub-clause (2),
shall have to furnish application before the official
prescribed, including the documents i.e., copy of
mother’s Nepalese citizenship, recommendation of
the Village Development Committee or Municipality
concerned, disclosing the description of residing
permanently upon being born in Nepal, proof
of not obtaining the citizenship of any foreign
country on the basis of father’s citizenship. And, in
Rule 7 of Nepal Citizenship Rule, 2063, provision
of other procedures has been made for obtaining
the naturalized Nepalese citizenship. As per the
aforementioned legal provisions, the application
submitted by the petitioner is under investigation;
hence, only after the investigation, necessary
decision shall certainly be made on whether or
not to confer the naturalized citizenship to the
petitioner; hence, it is not supposed to enter into
sensitive scope like writ. Hence, the present writ
petition is revocable; it should be revoked.
Description of the affidavit presented on
behalf of Ministry of Law and Justice :
Make decision or get the decision to confer the
naturalized citizenship as per the constitution and
law of Nepal made immediately is seen to have
contained in the opponent’s petition pleading. As
per the Government of Nepal, Work Division Rule,
2064, the issue relating to citizenships does not
fall under the jurisdiction of this Ministry; hence,
the writ petition filed by making this Ministry an
opponent without base and reason has been futile,
hence, should be revoked.
4.
Description of the affidavit presented on
behalf of Home Ministry :
6.
Pleadings of legal professional on behalf of
petitioner and opponent :
In the present writ petition that has been submitted
by being inducted in the cause lists as per Rule,
learned advocates, Mira Dhungana and Susma
Gautam, present on behalf of the petitioner,
presented the pleadings with making plea that if
citizenship has not been obtained from a foreign
country on the basis of the father’s citizenship, if
the child is residing in Nepal upon being born in
Nepal from the matrimonial relationship between
the Nepalese citizen woman and foreign citizen
man, there is no debate that he/she can obtain
Nepalese naturalized citizenship as per the Interim
Constitution of Nepal, 2063. Sub-clauses (2) and
Description of the affidavit presented on
behalf of District Administration Office,
Bharatpur, Chitwan :
The petitioner, Sita Devi Adhikari, has submitted the
application asking for the naturalized citizenship
for the sake of the son, Raju Saiyad Mohammad,
born from Indian citizen; but the power to confer
the aforementioned citizenship vested in Home
Ministry; hence, the file as per register along with
her application contained with documents was sent
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Compilation of Selected Decisions of Supreme Court on
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