SC extends NRC deadline by 1 month

July 23, 2019 16:11

The Supreme Court has extended its July 31 deadline to August 31 for publication of the final Assam National Register of Citizens. This was based on the request by the State NRC Coordinator Prateek Hajela whose plea pointed out that the NRC process has hit a roadblock in view of the devastating floods that Assam is facing now.

The Supreme Court on Tuesday also directed the NRC coordinator to publish a public notice asking all stakeholders to appear before the top court on August 7 at 3 pm to raise their issues regarding the NRC. All petitioners, who had approached the court with their issues, will now be heard on August 7, the Supreme Court said.

The SC however rejected the pleas of the Centre and Assam seeking a 20 per cent sample verification to find out wrongful inclusions or exclusions in NRC. The plea was dismissed after NRC coordinator told the Supreme Court that there was no need for further re-verification as over 72 lakh people had been re-verified already to consider exclusion/inclusion of names in the list.

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