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Five national law universities set up legal aid clinic; initiative aims to draft appeals on behalf of those excluded from Assam NRC
Fp Staff • 6 years agoThe legal aid clinic will work with teams of student volunteers in order to assist lawyers in drafting appeals on behalf of those excluded from Assam NRC and train lawyers and paralegals
Assam NRC Final List: Names of all 3.30 crore applicants published online; check status at www.nrcassam.nic.in
Fp Staff • 6 years agoAfter the publication of the final NRC list, construction work for the state's first detention centre for those who do not qualify as Indian citizens has begun.
Assam NRC: Centre to withdraw 10,000 paramilitary forces deployed before publication of final document
• 6 years agoThose who failed to make it to the final NRC list have been given 120 days to appeal against their exclusion at the Foreigners Tribunals. If not satisfied with the verdict of the tribunals, they will have the option to move the High Court and the Supreme Court for redress.
Imran Khan hits out at Narendra Modi govt over Assam NRC, claims exercise a wider policy to 'target Muslims'
Fp Staff • 6 years agoSoon after the final list of the updated NRC was out on Saturday, Imran Khan attacked the Modi-led central government of linking the NRC as part of a wider policy to 'target Muslims'
Assam govt to move to Supreme Court again for sample re-verification in NRC in certain districts, say reports
Fp Staff • 6 years agoAssam government is to move to the Supreme Court, once again, for 20 percent sample verification of the draft NRC in border districts along Bangladesh and 10 percent in other districts
Over 19 lakh names missing from final Assam NRC; legal options, including right to appeal in SC, open to those excluded
Fp Staff • 6 years agoAccording to the Assam government, 19,06,657 people have been excluded from the final NRC list. Legal provisions, including the right to appeal in the Supreme Court, is open to people who have been left out.
Assam NRC final list: Original petitioner in SC says document is 'flawed' as apex court rejected reverification plea
• 6 years agoIn 2009, the APW filed a petition in the Supreme Court praying that names of 41 lakh foreigners be deleted from the electoral rolls of Assam and the NRC updated.
Himanta Biswa Sarma, AASU seek re-verification of final Assam NRC list; Owaisi slams BJP, says 'myth' of illegal immigrants busted
Fp Staff • 6 years agoThe president of All Assam Students' Union Dipankar Kumar Nath indicated a similar disappointment over the release of the final NRC document and avowed to approach the apex court to file appeal for "rectification of these mistakes".
Assam NRC final list 2019 Updates: BJP should learn its lesson, myth of illegal immigrants busted, says Asaduddin Owaisi
Fp Staff • 6 years agoAssam NRC final list 2019 LIVE Updates: Ananta Kumar Malo, the AIUDF MLA from South Abhayapuri, and his son’s name were not in the final list of NRC published today. Another person to be missing on the list of citizens was retired army officer Mohammad Sanaullah, who has been declared a foreigner in the previous draft.
Assam NRC final list released: Those excluded from citizenship list can approach Foreigners Tribunals, Gauhati High Court, Supreme Court
Fp Staff • 6 years agoThe people excluded from the final Assam NRC list can even approach the Gauhati High Court or even the Supreme Court in case they are unsatisfied with the response of the Foreigners Tribunal.