Declared foreigners' names appear in final NRC, two cases registered against Hajela
Guwahati, Sept 4 (IBNS): While the ruling BJP and several other organisations alleged that a large number of illegal foreigners' names figured in the final National Register of Citizens (NRC), which was published on Aug 31 that left out more than 19 lakh people, a sensational incident has come to light in Morigaon district, where declared foreigners' names were included in the list.
According to the reports, three persons of a family were declared as illegal foreigners by a Foreigners’ Tribunal court in 2016.
But all declared foreigners' names appeared in the final NRC.
Following the incident, Assam Public Works (APW) has lodged an FIR against the declared foreigners and the LRCR of Mikirbheta NSK – 3, CRCR of Mikirbheta circle and DRCR of Morigaon district at Latasil police station in Guwahati.
Dhrubajyoti Talukdar, leader of Assam Public Works said that a large scale of anomalies took place in the entire process and declared foreigners' names were also listed in the final NRC.
Meanwhile, two cases have been registered against National Register of Citizens (NRC) State Coordinator Prateek Hajela for the deliberate exclusion of genuine Indian citizens from the final NRC, which was published on Aug 31 that left out more than 19 lakh people.
According to the reports, one case was registered at Latasil police station in Guwahati against Hajela.
Police registered the case against the NRC state coordinator after an organisation Asom Garia-Maria Yuba Chhatra Parishad had lodged an FIR at Latasil police station in Guwahati and alleged that many indigenous people were left out from the final NRC despite producing all valid documents.
Guwahati city police Commissioner Deepak Kumar said that one case has been registered at Latasil police station against the NRC state coordinator and one more case registered at Geetanagar police station against three declared foreigners and the officials of NRC in Morigaon district
“We will forward the Geetanagar case to Morigaon as the case has been related with the district,” Deepak Kumar said.
On the other hand, a case was registered at Dibrugarh police station on Wednesday after a person named Chandar Mazumdar – a member of the All India Legal Aid Forum, lodged an FIR against Hajela.
Chandar Mazumdar lodged an FIR at Dibrugarh Sadar police station against Hajela on Wednesday and said that his family deliberately excluded from the NRC.
“I am a bonafide citizen and my parents settled in Dibrugarh in 1947,” Mazumdar stated in his FIR and enclosed his family’s 1951 NRC with the FIR.
(By Hemanta Kumar Nath, Guwahati)
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