High Court seeks explanation on inclusion of ineligible people in Assam NRC
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State NRC Coordinator Hitesh Dev Sarma had in October written to all district heads to arrange a listing of such people whose names crept into the up to date residents’ record
The Gauhati High Court has requested Assam’s Coordinator of National Register of Citizens (NRC) to clarify how the names of some ineligible people crept into the replace record of residents launched on August 31, 2019.
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A Division Bench comprising judges Manojit Bhuyan and Soumitra Saikia directed Coordinator Hitesh Dev Sarma to submit an affidavit on the inclusion of such people inside three weeks.
The directive was issued per week in the past after the courtroom heard a petition by Rahima Begum, a resident of Mukalmua in western Assam’s Nalbari district. A Foreigners’ Tribunal had in 2019 declared her as a non-citizen however she was among the many 31.1 million out of 33 million candidates whose names have been included in the NRC.
“This is not an isolated case. Let the Assam NRC Coordinator file a comprehensive affidavit and bring on record the situations along with necessary particulars, where inroads into the list may have been created by individuals, who are undeserving and not legally entitled to be included in it,” the courtroom mentioned.
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The courtroom additionally mentioned that the affidavit ought to embrace particulars from all districts of Assam and never be restricted to Nalbari, the house district of the petitioner.
Mr. Sarma had in October 13 requested all deputy commissioners and district registrars of citizen registration to submit a listing of ineligible people included in the NRC and to put in writing the talking orders for the deletion of such names from the residents’ record.
The ineligible people have been specified as belonging to the “categories of DF/DV/PFT along with their descendants have found entry to the NRC”. DF, DV and PFT increase to ‘declared foreigner’, ‘doubtful voter’ and ‘pending in Foreigners’ Tribunal’.
The Supreme Court had monitored the updating of the 1951 NRC. The record, ready over 5 years and for an estimated expenditure of ₹1,600 crore, had excluded the names of 1.9 million candidates.
The NRC authority has not revealed what number of “ineligible” people have been “erroneously” included in the record. But the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party and NGOs batting for the rights of indigenous people have been demanding as much as 100% re-verification of the NRC.
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