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Assam NRC: SC refuses to give report copy to Centre
Why it is in news?
- The Supreme Court refused to provide a copy of the full report of Assam NRC Co-ordinator Prateek Hajela to the Centre on what excluded citizens could offer as proof of ancestry.
- “Government is extremely interested in having a copy,” Attorney-General K.K. Venugopal submitted.
- To this, Justice Ranjan Gogoi replied, “You may be interested, but we have to balance it.
- The court has called for the report, now it is the discretion of the court to give it to you or not.
- First you respond to this suggestion (of Mr. Hajela that excluded citizens be allowed to produce additional documents to prove their legacy), then we will see about it.
‘Re-doing’ exercise
- However, the previous hearing had also seen the Bench of Justices Gogoi and Rohinton Nariman raise questions about the Centre’s willingness, expressed in its draft Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) for receiving claims and objections, to allow claimants another chance to prove their Indian ancestry by submitting fresh documents.
- It had even indicated that giving a second opportunity to claimants would “upset the apple cart” and amount to “re-doing the entire exercise” of NRC.
Source
The Hindu