The All India United Democratic Front (AIUDF) has demanded the removal of Hitesh Dev Sarma as the National Register of Citizens (NRC) State Coordinator.
Assam State NRC Coordinator Moves SC for Re-Verification of Draft, Says Glaring Anomalies Noticed
State coordinator of NRC Hitesh Dev Sharma has sought complete, comprehensive and time bound re-verification of the draft as well as the supplementary list of NRC.
Villagers wait outside the National Register of Citizens (NRC) centre to get their documents verified by government officials, at Mayong Village in Morigaon, Assam. Photo: Reuters
Rights14/May/2021
New Delhi:Â Assam State NRC Coordinator has moved the Supreme Court seeking complete, comprehensive and time bound re-verification of the draft as well as the supplementary list of NRC saying some glaring anomalies have been noticed.
Assam State NRC Coordinator has moved the Supreme Court seeking complete, comprehensive and time bound re-verification of the draft as well as the supplementary list of NRC saying some glaring anomalies have been noticed.
An intervention application filed by Hitesh Dev Sharma in the pending matter before the top court has also sought direction for the re-verification to be done under the supervision of monitoring committee in the respective districts and such committee may be preferably represented by the respective district judge, district magistrate and superintendent of police.
Sharma, who has earlier worked as Executive Director, National Register of Citizenship (NRC), Assam from May, 2014 to February, 2017 was appointed as state coordinator of NRC on December 24, 2019 after his predecessor Prateek Hazela was transferred in October, 2019.