NRC state coordinator Hitesh Dev Sarma has moved the Supreme Court for a “complete comprehensive and time-bound reverification” of the draft updated citizen register following the detection of major anomalies during an internal stock-taking before issuing rejection slips to those who have been excluded in Assam.
Sarma, who took over as the NRC coordinator in December 2019, has also requested for the re-verification process to be conducted under the supervision of a monitoring committee in each district “preferably by the respective district judge, district magistrate and superintendent of police”.
The 38-page petition was filed on Tuesday, a day after Assam chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma told the media that the state government wants re-verification of 20 per cent names in the NRC in the bordering districts and 10 per cent elsewhere. The draft updated list, yet to be notified by the Registrar General of India, had excluded over 19 lakh applicants.
Attempt To Reopen Assam s NRC, Plea In Supreme Court For Reverification Attempt To Reopen Assam s NRC, Plea In Supreme Court For Reverification The draft citizen s list of August 2019, had left out 19 lakh people. Most are those who did not provide adequate documents to prove their citizenship claims, officials had said.
Assam s NRC coordinator said irreguularities found in both final draft and the supplementary list.
Guwahati: Major irregularities have been detected in the lists of the National Registry of Citizens in Assam and a comprehensive re-verification should be conducted, the state s NRC coordinator Hitesh Dev Sarma has sought in a petition filed in the Supreme Court. The irregularities, he said, have been detected in the final draft as well as the supplementary list. While ineligible names were included, many eligible names have also been excluded, he said in his petition.
Assam coordinator moves SC seeking re-verification of NRC list
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Guwahati, May 13 : The Assam coordinator of the National Register of Citizens (NRC) has urged the Supreme Court for a comprehensive and time-bound re-verification of the citizens list , highlighting major irregularities in the process, officials said on Thursday.
The officials said that Assam NRC coordinator Hitesh Dev Sarma in his interlocutory application also prayed for the deletion of illegal voters from Assam s electoral rolls besides the revision of the draft NRC and a supplementary list under a relevant clause of the Schedule of Citizenship (Registration of Citizens and Issue of National Identity Cards) Rules, 2003.