NRC: 52 Bangladeshis sent back from Assam

Guwahati : Around 3.29 crore people in Assam applied for National Register of Citizens and the first list published on December 31 last year enlisted only 1.9 crore names. The tension of many people who were not listed in the first list slopped down when NRC officials declared the final draft list on July 30. While many have passed the citizenship test and have found their names in the final list, close to 40 lakh people have been kept out from the list.

On Sunday, Section 144 of the Cr.PC was forced in seven ‘sensitive’ districts, restricting the movement of people in groups of more than four. Officials, however, said they did not found violence owing to the assurances by the Centre and the State government that those who were left out of the complete draft would get chance to establish their citizenship.

The clamping of prohibitory orders matched with the banishment of 52 Bangladeshis through the Mankachar sector on the Assam-Meghalaya-Bangladesh tri-junction. These 52 were ‘convicted foreigners’ as opposite to ‘declared foreigners’ who are marked thus by Foreigners’ Tribunals after failing the citizenship test and lodged in any of the six custody camps.

The convicted foreigners are also lodged in such camps, but they are self-declared people arrested for not having travel papers, or for cross-border crimes.