Who's in, who's out part II
On August 3, thousands of Assam residents recieved notifications from the NRC asking them to appear for re-verification.
by Kaushik Deka
Aug 09, 2019
3 minutes
On August 3, thousands of people from Assam whose names had been included in the state's draft National Register of Citizens (NRC) published last year received notices asking them to appear before designated authorities for re-verification- in some cases, hundreds of kilometres away from their homes-within two or three days.
For instance, some residents of Sontoli village, in Kamrup district, were asked to appear for hearings in Golaghat, some 450 km away. As a result, these notices caused panic among the recipients-most
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