KATHMANDU: Supreme Court (SC) has issued a stay order in the name of the government to ban 34,000 citizenship cards distributed in Tarai-Madhes districts arguing that they were distributed violating the law.
Hearing the writ petition filed at the SC seeking scrapping of the citizenship, a division bench of Chief Justice Cholendra Shumsher Rana and Justice Purusottam Bhandari issued the order in the government’s name not to grant their children citizenship cards by descent.
On April 16, Advocate Borna Bahadur Karki had filed the writ petition seeking the scrapping of 34,000 citizenship distributed in the year 2054 BS, arguing that they were distributed violating the law.
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