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The controversies around the Final Draft of Citizenship in Assam -Vijaita Singh

-The Hindu Why has the final NRC list not been notified yet? What are the contentions of the BJP led Government of Assam? The story so far: In response to a Right to Information (RTI) application by The Hindu, the State Coordinator, National Register of Citizens (NRC), Assam said that 1032 doubtful cases in the final draft of NRC, Assam have been referred to the concerned district commissioners for necessary action. The...

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Centre asks Assam to immediately issue Rejection Slips to NRC-excluded -Vijaita Singh

-The Hindu Over 19 lakh of the 3.29 crore applicants were left out of the final register that took five years to compile. The Centre has asked the Assam government that “Rejection Slips” to those excluded from the final National Register of Citizens (NRC) published in 2019 shall be issued immediately. More than 19 lakh of the 3.29 crore applicants in Assam were left out of the final register that took five years...

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19 lakh NRC-excluded stuck in limbo -Rahul Karmakar

-The Hindu A year later, they are yet to receive Rejection Slips. Guwahati: A year after the publication of the complete National Register of Citizens (NRC), the fate of 19,06,657 people excluded from the updated list in Assam continues to hang in the balance. The ongoing COVID-19 crisis and the floods in between have been blamed for the delay in the process of issuing Rejection Slips to each of the excluded, citing the...

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Civil society protests eviction of Scheduled Tribes and OTFDs from forests

-Press Release by All India Forum of Forest Movements (AIFFM), dated February 22, 2019 On 13 February, the Supreme Court of India, hearing a decade-old petition challenging the constitutional validity of the Forest Rights Act, 2006, ordered that forest dwellers whose claims for recognition of forest rights have been rejected would have to be evicted in a summary and time-bound manner. The order contains separate instructions for each state government to...

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VIP accused wasting court’s time: SC -Dhananjay Mahapatra

-The Times of India NEW DELHI: Justice B S Chauhan of the Supreme Court on Monday said that senior advocates engaged by well-to-do accused in criminal cases were taking up most of the time of the court, leaving little time for the redressal of the grievances of commoners. "Our entire (judicial) time is wasted by senior advocates engaged by influential accused, who think the Supreme Court is their safe haven. Ordinary citizens...

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