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GUWAHATI: A key condition for rehabilitating families evicted from state-owned land at Sipajhar in Assam’s Darrang district last September is that the beneficiaries’ names must be part of the updated National Register of Citizens (NRC), the BJP-led government informed the Gauhati high court on Wednesday.
The HC is hearing a batch of PILs on the eviction drive, which triggered mob retaliation from illegal settlers and led to police firing in which two people were killed and several injured.
Bilal Ikram, counsel for petitioner and Congress MLA Debabrata Saikia, said apart from the NRC clause, the state had set a couple of other conditions for the rehabilitation of those evicted during the land reclamation drive. “One condition is that the families must be landless. The state will also verify if they are erosion-affected,” he said.
Saikia, who is the leader of the opposition in the assembly, will file a rejoinder specifically opposing the condition that those evicted must be part of the NRC to be eligible for rehabilitation.
The NRC, which is unique to Assam, was first compiled in 1951 and updated and published in 2019 on the instructions of the Supreme Court. The updated citizenship rolls have yet to receive either the apex court or the Registrar General of India’s approval.
Saikia’s counsel quoted the advocate general as assuring the court that the state would not take any coercive action against any potential illegal settler unless it was compelled to do so. On the mob violence on September 23, the state said an inquiry was underway to ascertain the facts and circumstances leading to the incident and whether any external force or organisation was involved in inciting the mob fury.The division bench recorded the submissions made on behalf of the state government in the order issued on Wednesday.
The state sought more time for the revenue and the home and political departments to file two additional affidavits. The court will next hear the petitions on December 14.
The HC is hearing a batch of PILs on the eviction drive, which triggered mob retaliation from illegal settlers and led to police firing in which two people were killed and several injured.
Bilal Ikram, counsel for petitioner and Congress MLA Debabrata Saikia, said apart from the NRC clause, the state had set a couple of other conditions for the rehabilitation of those evicted during the land reclamation drive. “One condition is that the families must be landless. The state will also verify if they are erosion-affected,” he said.
Saikia, who is the leader of the opposition in the assembly, will file a rejoinder specifically opposing the condition that those evicted must be part of the NRC to be eligible for rehabilitation.
The NRC, which is unique to Assam, was first compiled in 1951 and updated and published in 2019 on the instructions of the Supreme Court. The updated citizenship rolls have yet to receive either the apex court or the Registrar General of India’s approval.
Saikia’s counsel quoted the advocate general as assuring the court that the state would not take any coercive action against any potential illegal settler unless it was compelled to do so. On the mob violence on September 23, the state said an inquiry was underway to ascertain the facts and circumstances leading to the incident and whether any external force or organisation was involved in inciting the mob fury.The division bench recorded the submissions made on behalf of the state government in the order issued on Wednesday.
The state sought more time for the revenue and the home and political departments to file two additional affidavits. The court will next hear the petitions on December 14.
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