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SC allows Jamiat Ulama I Hind to amend contempt petition filed against NRC coordinator Hitesh Dev SarmaBy
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The Jamiat had moved the Supreme Court against the notification. The bench of Chief Justice S.A. Bobde, Justices A.S. Bopanna and V. Ramasubramanian while not accepting contempt petition against Sarma on Wednesday allowed the matter to be listed next week to enable the petitioner to amend the contempt petition.
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Guwahati: The Supreme Court has allowed the Jamiat Ulama I Hind to amend the contempt petition filed against present National Register of Citizens (NRC) coordinator Hitesh Dev Sarma after he wrote to all deputy commissioners and district registrars of citizen registration (DRCR), directing them to weed out ineligible people from the
The Supreme Court allowed time to Jamiat Ulama-i-Hind to make amendments in its petition challenging Assam NRC coordinator Hitesh Dev Sarma’s order to delete the names of “ineligible” persons in the f
The state in India’s restive northeast continues to struggle to maintain an accurate record of citizens.
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January 07, 2021
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There is no end to controversies over the register of citizens in India’s northeastern state of Assam, which was updated in a unique exercise as a deterrent against the influx of foreign nationals into the disturbed state.
An affidavit submitted by the National Register of Citizens coordinator Hitesh Dev Sarma to Gauhati High Court said that as many as 277,000 “undeserving” people might have enrolled their names in the National Register of Citizens (NRC) published on August 31, 2019.
The affidavit based its assessment on the results of a sample re-verification of 27 percent of the entries carried out ahead of the final publication of the list which led to the deletion of 102,462 names from the register. It contended that more undeserving names could be found in the remaining 73 percent unverified results covering an overwhelming ma
2020 was a year of raging pandemic, gas spill, floods, massive protests for Assam
The Assam government adopted the policy of Ruthless Quarantine with A Human Heart as nearly 30 lakh people underwent both institutional and home isolation.
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Villagers on a banana raft move to a safer place from the flooded area of Goalbil in Baksa district of Assam. (Photo | PTI) By PTI
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