Ex-official booked over disappearance of Assam NRC data, mails ‘wilfully deleted’
The disappearance of data has created panic in the public, mostly among the people excluded from the list as the rejection certificates were yet to be issued.
The disappearance of data has created panic in the public, mostly among the people excluded from the list as the rejection certificates were yet to be issued.
Meanwhile, NRC State Coordinator Hitesh Dev Sarma has accepted that the data have been made offline, but refuted the allegation of any 'malafide' intent in it, as claimed by the Congress.
The clarification is seen as an effort by the BJP government at the Centre to defuse anger and protests over the NRC and the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) that has erupted over the past two months.
This came in response to a petition that stated around 60 children have been excluded from the NRC but their parents have been granted citizenship through NRC.
The NRC is a list of all citizens domiciled in Assam and is being updated at present to retain bonafide citizens within the state and evict illegal settlers, purportedly migrants from Bangladesh.
This came hours after the Union Cabinet on Wednesday approved the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill that seeks to grant citizenship to non-Muslim refugees from Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan.
While, the National Register of Citizens (NCR) list was published on August 31, in the state. The NRC had left out more than 19 lakh people from the list.
The order comes in the wake of two FIRs having been lodged against Prateek Hajela, for 'discrepancies' in the final NRC list.
Targeting Mamata Banerjee, Amit Shah said the chief minister is keen on keeping infiltrators in the state now to expand her voter base.
Earlier this month, UP Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath had praised the implementation of NRC in Assam and added that he would introduce a similar drive in his state if needed.
