The Assam government has ruled out detention of people who do not figure in the list "in any circumstances", until the tribunals declare them foreigners
Children born in India should be citizens
Immigrants Act comes into force following influx of refugees from then East Pakistan to Assam after partition in 1950
Of the 33 million applicants, some 31.12 million have been regarded as eligible
The government will release the final National Register of Citizens (NRC) list, over a year after the first list was declared. Listen to this podcast to know about NRC
The decisions were taken at a high-level meeting chaired by Union Home Minister Amit Shah and attended by Assam Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal and others
The apex court also said that the ongoing NRC exercise cannot be ordered to be reopened on the basis of certain legal challenges raised before it
The allegation by the AASU came less than a month before the publication of the final NRC, a list of Assam's residents