Tribune News Service\
New Delhi, August 8
Brushing aside criticism over National Register of Citizens (NRC) exercise in Assam, the Supreme Court on Thursday asked Assam NCR Coordinator Prateek Hajela to stick to the August 31 deadline fixed by it.
“Our orders, our actions are being subjected to debates and criticism every moment. We are not bothered by it. If we will go into all this, we will never complete the task,” said a Bench headed by Chief Justice of India Ranjan Gogoi.
“What we want is that let the NRC come out within the deadline of August 31. Who likes it, who does not like it, we don’t bother,” said the Bench which also included Justice Rohinton F Nariman.
The top court’s comments came after Hajela drew its attention to leakage of information on NRC exercise in Assam Assembly and certain statements made by leader of opposition and some other persons. The Bench said it was not bothered about what was being said about the NRC exercise in Assam.
On July 23, it had extended from July 31 to August 31 the deadline for publication of final NRC in Assam after the Centre, state government and the state NRC Coordinator said more time was needed to publish the final list.
The Final Draft NRC list was published on July 30 last year in which 2.89 crore names out of the 3.29 crore people were included while 40,70,707 people failed to make it to the list. Of those left out 37,59,630 names had been rejected and the remaining 2,48,077 were put on hold.
Thereafter, a massive exercise with regard to claims and objections has been undertaken under the supervision of the SC to decide the fate of those left out or wrongly included.
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