FIR filed towards ex-NRC State Coordinator Prateek Hajela, others

By Express News Service

GUWAHATI: Hitesh Dev Sarma, the State Coordinator of the National Register of Citizens (NRC) in Assam, lodged an FIR with the CID department of the Assam police towards former NRC State Coordinator Prateek Hajela and others for his or her alleged anti-national actions in the course of the updation of the residents’ record.

In his May 19 criticism, Dev Sarma shared the main points of a number of loopholes within the verification of paperwork to match the household tree of the candidates. He suspected that some real paperwork had been used to make false linkage claims with an individual of pre-1971 period.

“While office verification was being done, it was noticed that the documents submitted fraudulently could not be detected merely through office and field verification, while some imposters tried to establish linkage with some genuine citizen through these fraudulently acquired documents,” the criticism reads.

“The family tree matching (FTM) was introduced as a remedy to this. In the FTM process, all the offspring of a ‘legacy person’ from whose lineage is claimed, were asked to submit their family details, which were then compared and matched through a software with the other family trees submitted by the descendants of the same legacy person,” it additional says.

Hajela, who’s an IAS officer, is presently serving in his house state of Madhya Pradesh.

Over 19.06 lakh of the three.3 crore candidates had been neglected of the NRC. The 1951 NRC was up to date primarily based on the Assam Accord of 1985, the clause 6 of which says Bangladeshi residents, who entered Assam after March 24, 1971, are to be detected and deported.