The petitioners were represented by senior advocate Kapil Sibal and Advocate-on-Record Fuzail Ahmad Ayyubi.
The petitioners urged the apex court to direct the State Coordinator not to take any steps of deletion of any included names from the final NRC.
“The unilateral action of the State Coordinator directing re-verification and revisiting of completed stages in the process set out under the Schedule to the 2003 Rules will lead to unending delays in the finalisation of the NRC, in direct violation of the repeated orders of this court”, said the plea filed by Jamiat.
In October 2020, Sarma had directed all the Deputy Commissioners and District Registrars of Citizen Registration (DRCR) in Assam, to delete “ineligible persons belonging to the categories of DF (Declared Foreigner)/DV (D-Voters)/PFT (Pending cases before Foreigners’ Tribunal) along with their descendants” who were included in the final draft of the National Register of Citizens, Assam, prepared under the constant…