The Centre and the Assam government sought permission for sample re-verification to find out wrongful inclusions and exclusions of persons in NRC
When the draft NRC was published on July 30 last year, there was a huge controversy over the exclusion of 4 million people from it
The plea submitted that there was a second category of people whose names were not included in the complete draft NRC
Apex court refuses to extend deadline beyond July 31 for publication of final NRC list
There is a risk that persons not part of the NRC could become stateless, they said
There has been a huge controversy over the exclusion of 4 million people from the draft NRC
There has been surge in such applications in last few weeks and hence, the deadline be extended by one more month
However, a final decision on the fate of such paper-less people will be taken by the Supreme Court, which is supervising the massive exercise in Assam
The draft NRC was published on July 30 and included the names of 29 million people out of the total applications of 32.9 million
There have been 21 such suicides in Assam since 2015 when the process of updating the National Register for Citizens to weed out illegal immigrants from the state began
Permitting these five identity documents, the bench said the fear of an ineligible person getting into the NRC cannot be a ground for exclusion of genuine citizens
BJP General Secretary Ram Madhav had said people excluded from the final list of Assam-specific NRC would be de-franchised and deported to their country
Shah said the BJP government will pick out each and every infiltrator
Names of 19 mn people out of the 32.9 mn applicants were incorporated when the first draft of the NRC for Assam was published
NRC is a register containing names of Indian citizens
Earlier on August 28, the apex court had said that it could consider a re-verification of 10 per cent of the people who were recently included in Assam's draft NRC
The SC also raised doubts over the Centre's proposal to allow a claimant to change his legacy document for inclusion in the draft NRC
Indigenous Nationalist Party of Twipra (INPT) has demanded NRC revision in the northeastern state like in Assam
The legacy of anti-immigrant sentiment in public sphere for more than a century needs due consideration along with the colonial policies and schemes
The second NRC draft list was released on July 30 that included the names of 28.9 million people out of 32.9 million applicants in Assam