2.8 Right to Identity

1. The citizenship's core (the patriarchal-battle): the Art-11's-descent (the father-OR-mother (the verified-text (the pre-2015's "and"-world (the Maneka-era's-cases (the courts'-or-reading- before-the-text (the Devi-vs-the-state lore))))); the Art-12's-certificate (the mother's-name's- option (the identity's-constitutional-correction)); the naturalisation's-gender-faces (the foreign- woman-married-to-Nepali's fast-track (the foreign-man-married-to-Nepali's slower-track (the gendered-asymmetry's critique (the CEDAW-committee's-commentary-lore)))); the 2078's- amendment-controversy (the "both-parents" requirement's debate (the single-mother's-and- the-citizen-mother's-child's- exclusion-fear (the see-saw's-record (the honest hedge: the amendment-line's citation-by-year))). 2. The name-and-the-lineage: the surname's-faces (the husband's-name-imposition's custom (the 2063's-reform (the woman's-own-name-and-lineage (the citizenship-and-the-documents' registration))); the children's-lineage (the mother's-name's-right (the 12's-echo)). 3. The gender-identity (the minorities' face): the transgender's-documentation (the gender- marker's-change (the citizenship's-and-passport's-faces (the 3.8's-link (the recognition's developing-line (the honest note: the administrative-practice's evolution))). The prescribed cases (cited verbatim; honest notes): Meera Dhungana v. Office of Prime Minister, Council of Ministers et al. (NKP 2064 B.S., No. 6, D.No. 7854); Sapana Pradhan Malla v. Office of Prime Minister et al. (No. 9, NKP 2064 B.S., D.No. 7880); Sapana Pradhan Malla v. Government of Nepal & Others (Nepal [citation not detailed in syllabus]); Sapana Pradhan Malla v. Government of Nepal et al. (NKP 2065 B.S., No. 8, D.No. 7997); Laxmi Devi Dhikta et al. v. Government et al. (NKP 2068 B.S., No. 1, D.No. 8541) — the women's-rights PIL-era's cluster (the marriage-property-reproductive-and-identity faces; read each decision for the precise facts-and-holdings).