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The Supreme Court has extended by one month its deadline of 30 June for the publication of the final draft of the National Register of Assam Citizens (NRC) and ordered the police protection of the national coordinator Prateek Hajela, who is in charge of Ranjan Gogoi and RF Nariman ordered the Secretary General of Assam and the Director General of Police (DGP) to badess the situation and, consequently, to ensure the security Hajela and her family members, including her children. The security blanket will add to the existing police protection.
The CNR is being prepared to identify illegal migrants in Assam.
The NRC issue is sensitive in Assam and has already generated a lot of fury in the state. As the previous deadline was June 30, the state government had strengthened security in the state before the publication of the project. Hajela filed his report in court, indicating the reasons for his inability to prepare the list by June 30. Accept his submission and also the badurance that no more time would be necessary. "The added security is" "to ensure that Hajela can accomplish the task entrusted to her with the utmost dedication, sincerity and free of worries and mental impediments," said the court, giving seven days in the state to file a report of action (ATR) on his order.
The court order came after Hajela responded to the court's motion on security in the affirmative. "Considering the kind of work you do, the ramifications and the possible fallout, do you want an order regarding your personal safety," the judges told the state coordinator. Hajela responded in the affirmative and said that the state could make an badessment and provide for an additional arrangement.
The court also authorized Hajela to delete the names of 1.5 lakh from the first draft published in December 2017 but found to be inadmissible. Hajela was also allowed to keep pending the names of the descendants of declared foreigners and dubious voters.
The SC stated that it would consider all other interlocutory applications on July 31st.
The first CNR project for Assam was published in December last year according to the instructions of the higher court. The first project, which is a list of citizens of the state, was published on the night of December 31 to January 1 and it was named 19 million people out of 32.9 million applicants.
The SC then stated that the claims of these citizens, whose names did not appear in the CNR draft for Assam published on December 31st of last year, would be examined and included in the following list, if they were authentic.
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