Guwahati: The state coordinator of Nationwide Register of Residents (NRC) in Assam has filed a criticism with the vigilance wing in opposition to his predecessor, Prateek Hajela, alleging monetary irregularities.
A senior official of the Vigilance & Anti-Corruption wing of Assam Police informed PTI that it has obtained a criticism from NRC State Coordinator Hitesh Dev Sarma, however no FIR has been registered but.
“We are going to research the criticism first. If we discover any benefit in it, we will talk about with the suitable authority and proceed,” he stated.
When contacted, Sarma informed PTI that he filed the criticism on Monday. He, nevertheless, declined to touch upon its contents.
Sources stated that Sarma’s criticism alleges monetary irregularities throughout preparation of the ultimate record of the NRC.
Final month, Sarma had lodged a criticism with the CID in opposition to Hajela, a number of different officers and information entry operators related to updating the citizenship doc, accusing them of “anti nationwide” and “prison actions” through the course of.
The ultimate NRC was launched on August 31, 2019, with the record excluding 19,06,657 individuals. A complete of three,11,21,004 names had been included out of three,30,27,661 candidates.
After taking cost, Sarma had informed the Gauhati Excessive Court docket in an affidavit that within the “supplementary record” of the NRC, over 10,000 names had been both wrongly included or excluded, and vital orders had been issued to delete practically 4,800 “ineligible individuals” from the doc.
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