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Guwahati : While the Supreme Court directed the Assam state coordinator office for the National Register of Citizens (NRC) update to publish the draft NRC by December 31 next, Assam police sounded high alert across the state following intelligence input that some elements assist by foreign countries have been trying to create disturbance situation in the state ahead of draft publication.
Assam police head quarter has been issued alert notification to all district police to take appropriate measures in their concerning districts ahead of the draft publication of NRC.
Assam police ADGP (Special Branch) Pallav Bhattacharya said that, Assam police had issued alert notification to all district police and other security agencies to tackle any untoward situation.
The alert notification issued following the Intelligence Bureau (IB) had alerted the Centre, state home department and Assam police that, few organizations of the state, outside Assam and foreign countries had establish their footprint in various parts of the state and are trying to create untoward situation during the period.
A top IB official said that, these organisations are mostly from South India, Northern India and Bangladesh.
'Some organizations of Pakistan and gulf countries are also trying to contact with local organizations. They feared that, maximum minority people (Muslim) name, residing in Assam will not register in the much awaited draft publication of NRC update. Some organisations had raised the issue in group meetings held in mosques, madrasas,'Â the top IB official said.
Following the intelligence input, Assam police has taken the matter very seriously and started operation against the anti-social elements in various parts of the state.
Meanwhile, Assam ADGP (Special Branch) Pallav Bhattacharya said that, adequate measures have been taken to tackle any situation.
On the other hand, the state home department had also urged the Union home ministry to send additional forces to the state.
The draft publication of NRC update in Assam would likely to publish on December 31 in this year.
According to the reports, around 96 per cent verification process of NRC update has been completed so far.
The state coordinator for the NRC presently updating the 1951 list under the supervision of the apex court to detect undocumented immigrants from Bangladesh, Prateek Hajela on had submitted a report before the Supreme Court on October 12 and mentioned that, out of 47.09 lakh applicants who
have submitted Panchayat certificate to get included in NRC, 17.40 lakh were original inhabitants.
On the other hand, a top official of the state coordinator office for the NRC said that, several fake documents were found during the verification process, whichwere submitted with the application forms.
Over 68 lakh families of the state had submitted their required documents with the NRC application forms.
Recently, Assam Police Special DG Kula Saikia and ADGP (SB) Pallav Bhattacharya had visited upper Assam and discussed with top police officials of Golaghat, Jorhat, Sivsagar, Charaideo, Dibrugarh, Tinsukia and officials of other security agencies.
Another top Assam cop Mukesh Agarwala (ADGP of law & order) had visited lower Assam districts to review the situation.
On the other hand, All Assam Students Union (AASU) urged the NRC authorities to publish an illegal foreigners free NRC for greater interest of the indigenous people of Assam.
(Reporting by Hemanta Kumar Nath)
