<div><span style="font-size: 1rem;">The High Court issued a rule asking why the concerned authorities should not be instructed to issue birth registration certificates to the street children across the country.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>A High Court Division bench comprising Justice Md Mozibur Rahman Miah and Justice Khizir Hayat issued the rule today.</div><div><br></div><div>Barrister Tapos Kanti Baul was present at the hearing as the writ petitioner.</div><div><br></div><div>Earlier on June 12, the petition was filed for an organization named 'Sports for Hope and Independence', making Women and Children Affairs Secretary and Office of the Registrar General, Birth and Death Registration authorities respondents in the writ, reports BSS.</div><div><br></div><div>"According to the newspaper reports, more than two lakh street children in the country have no birth registration certificates. They cannot get enrolled into any school for this certificate. So we filed the writ for providing them the birth registration certificate," Barrister Baul added.</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>