Group demands CBI probe into sale and procurement of NRC legacy data

Guwahati (Assam), September 25, 2018:

The Bengali Joint Coordination Committee, Assam (BJCCA) has demanded a CBI inquiry into alleged sale and procurement of legacy data during NRC updation process.

The BJCCA said that during the updation of the NRC, the principles and guidelines of the Nehru-Liaquat treaty and the Indira-Mujib treaty should have been taken into consideration.

The organisation also demanded that the issue of the inclusion of names of Indian citizens in the NRC be taken up with appropriate authority saying persons who were born in any part of erstwhile Assam and whose forefathers had stayed in or migrated from any part of that Assam before the Partition of India should be viewed as “original inhabitants” of the state.

It demanded that Central officials or Class-I gazette officers should be engaged to handle the process of NRC claims and objections. It also demanded that more than one of the 15 admissible documents should be allowed to be submitted by the applicants.