SC hits out at Home Ministry, says govt not allowing NRC work to continue

Apex court refuses to extend the deadline beyond July 31 for publication of final NRC list

Coming down heavily on Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA), the Supreme Court on Tuesday said that the ministry was “hell bent” on not allowing National Register of Citizens (NRC) in Assam to continue as it came up with excuses from time to time in order to delay the process. A two judge bench led by Chief Justice of India (CJI) Ranjan Gogoi, while refusing to extend the deadline beyond July 31 for publishing the final NRC list said that Centre was not cooperating in the NRC process.

“It seems the entire effort of the MHA is to destroy the NRC