In central Assam’s Morigaon district, officials have identified some 200 people declared foreigners by various Foreigners’ Tribunals. District officials have started the work to delete the names of ‘declared foreigners’ whose names had been included in the updated National Register of Citizens (NRC). There are 100 such tribunals where people of suspect nationality are required to prove they are Indians.
Morigaon Deputy Commissioner Hemen Das said, “These 200 belong to 39 families scattered across the district. Some of them are declared foreigners while some others are suspected illegal immigrants with cases pending. Their detection was not based on any complaint. A mechanism we have in place helped us find their names in the draft NRC. We are deleting their names so that people don’t lose their faith in the system.”

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