Assam NRC: Follow Due Procedure In The Adjudication Of Claims For Inclusion In the Final List, SC Tells Coordinator [Read Order]

MEHAL JAIN

30 May 2019 4:44 PM IST

The top court's remarks come close on the heels of the widely-reported arrest and lodging in a detention centre for foreigners of a retired soldier, a Kargil war veteran, after a Foreigners Tribunal declared him, who had rendered three decades of his life to the Indian Army, an illegal immigrant.

The Supreme Court on Thursday urged the state of Assam to follow due procedure in the adjudication of claims for inclusion in the final NRC and not skim through the process to meet the court-set July 31 deadline.The vacation bench headed by Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi, in addressing State Coordinator Prateek Hajela, observed, 'There are reports in the media that suggest that the objections (to...

Assam NRC: Follow Due Procedure In The Adjudication Of Claims For Inclusion In the Final List, SC Tells Coordinator [Read Order]

MEHAL JAIN

The top court's remarks come close on the heels of the widely-reported arrest and lodging in a detention centre for foreigners of a retired soldier, a Kargil war veteran, after a Foreigners Tribunal declared him, who had rendered three decades of his life to the Indian Army, an illegal immigrant.

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