{"id":32947,"date":"2018-10-29T17:39:30","date_gmt":"2018-10-29T12:09:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=32947"},"modified":"2018-10-29T17:39:30","modified_gmt":"2018-10-29T12:09:30","slug":"publish-first-nrc-draft-for-assam-by-december-31-sc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/publish-first-nrc-draft-for-assam-by-december-31-sc\/","title":{"rendered":"Publish\u00a0first\u00a0NRC\u00a0draft\u00a0for Assam\u00a0by\u00a0December\u00a031:\u00a0SC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/other-states\/publish-first-nrc-draft-for-assam-by-december-31-sc\/article22261378.ece\">Publish\u00a0first\u00a0NRC\u00a0draft\u00a0for Assam\u00a0by\u00a0December\u00a031:\u00a0SC<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>What has happened?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Supreme Court is standing firm by its order directing the government and the authorities to publish the first draft of National Register of Citizens (NRC) for Assam by December 31, 2017<\/p>\n<p><strong>Backdrop<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Supreme Court is hearing a writ petition filed by\u00a0Assam\u00a0Public Works (APW) in July 2009 for identification of Bangladeshi foreigners in the State and deletion of their names from the voters\u2019 list<strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>What was the Bench\u2019s decision?<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A Bench of Justices Ranjan Gogoi and Rohinton Nariman shot down fears expressed by the Centre that a volatile situation may arise if the draft NRC was published on or before December 31<\/li>\n<li>The first draft is to be published after scrutinising the claims of citizenship of 2.38 Crore persons in the north-eastern State<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Centre\u2019s reservations<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Attorney-General K.K. Venugopal expressed reservations about publishing the draft NRC when lakhs of claims for citizen registration were still under scrutiny. At a hearing on December 15, the top law officer said there could be a law and order situation in the State<\/p>\n<p><strong>Claims under scrutiny<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Registrar General of Citizens Registration of India had informed the\u00a0Supreme Court\u00a0that 38 lakh people were under scrutiny in the State after their documents appeared doubtful. The parental linkage of another 47 lakh people were in doubt after the authorities matched their family trees. Finally, the cases of 29 lakh married women who had submitted certificates from the gram panchayat secretaries concerned were also under scrutiny<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Publish\u00a0first\u00a0NRC\u00a0draft\u00a0for Assam\u00a0by\u00a0December\u00a031:\u00a0SC What has happened? The Supreme Court is standing firm by its order directing the government and the authorities to publish the first draft of National Register of Citizens (NRC) for Assam by December 31, 2017 Backdrop The Supreme Court is hearing a writ petition filed by\u00a0Assam\u00a0Public Works (APW) in July 2009 for identification&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/publish-first-nrc-draft-for-assam-by-december-31-sc\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Publish\u00a0first\u00a0NRC\u00a0draft\u00a0for Assam\u00a0by\u00a0December\u00a031:\u00a0SC<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-1","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704879625},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32947","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32947"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32947\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}