Assam’s NRC Coordinator Hitesh Dev Sarma had filed FIR alleging criminal and anti-national activities by some officers and staff under updation of NRC including former NRC co-ordinator Prateek Hajela. The FIR was filed in the Superintendent of Police,Criminal Investigation Department, Assam.
Sarma said, “Supreme Court of India is the custodian of NRC and unless we see the paper it is difficult to comment as to how the Co-ordinator has filed the FIR. We seek legal opinion on whether the state government can see the NRC papers.”
NRC is an exercise to weed out illegal immigrants and is monitored by the Supreme Court. The top court had in 2019 directed that a security regime similar to that provided for Aadhaar be enacted to protect the NRC data, and ordered that the final list of inclusions and exclusions to the register should be given to the state and central governments only after that.
Around 3.30 crore people had applied for inclusion in the NRC, but the names of nearly 40 lakhs of them were excluded in the draft NRC published on July 30, 2018. Of them, around 36.28 lakh people had claimed for inclusion on the list and about 2 lakhs had registered their objections. The supplementary NRC list had found more than 31.1 million people eligible to be included in the registry and left out over 1.9 million people.
Stating that Congress party’s number in Lok Sabha will plummet to 30 to 35 seats in 2024 general election, he said alleged Popular Front of India (PFI) in Batadraba incident where a police station was set on fire.
On May 22 Houses of those involved in setting fire to the police station were razed to ground by district administration. Alleging custodial death mob set on fire a police station in Batardraba in Assam’s Nagaon district recently. Three police personnel were injured.
Sarma said, “PFI, CFI should be banned. PFI was involved in the Batadraba violence.”
Assam police claimed that the prime accused of the Batadrava police station arson Ashikul Islam died on Monday while he was trying to escape from police. A senior police officer who does not want to be named said that Ashikul was hit by a police vehicle accidently when he tried to escape from another police vehicle.
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