The Supreme Court on Tuesday pulled up the Centre over the National Register of Citizens (NRC) in Assam saying that the Union home ministry comes up with different stories to destroy the process. Rejecting the plea, a bench headed by Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi said the Centre is not cooperating and it seems the entire effort of the home ministry is to destroy the NRC process. The court told the government that if it wanted the citizen register process to go on there were “1001 ways to do so”. The Supreme Court had extended the last date to file claims and objections on inclusion of names in the draft NRC from December 15 to December 31, 2018. The Supreme Court had initially given the Assam government a deadline of December 15 to register the remaining people.

Source: Hindustan Times February 05, 2019 10:15 UTC