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.
Shah said this as Meghalaya CM Conrad Sangma had expressed his fears over the excluded people in the Assam citizens' list entering his state.
The Maharashtra Home Ministry had last week reportedly wrote to the City and Industrial Development Corporation (CIDCO) and sought a three-acre plot in Nerul for the detention centre.
To facilitate the appeals, 200 new Foreigners Tribunals have been made functional from today, in addition to 100 already existing ones.
The exclusion of such a huge number of persons from the NRC will give rise to a compartmentalisation all over the country, former PCC chief, Pradip Bhattacharya said.
Dubbing the updated final NRC as a "fiasco," West Bengal Chief Minister had said it exposed those who are trying to gain "political mileage" out of the exercise.
