The Supreme Court on Friday ordered transfer of Assam National Register of Citizens (NRC) Coordinator Prateek Hajela to Madhya Pradesh on deputation.
A bench headed by Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi said Hajela would be on deputation for a maximum period in the central state. The CJI, however, did not specify the reason, why they are transferring NRC Coordinator Hajela.
The court asked the government to issue an order transferring Hajela immediately. Hajela, the 1995 batch Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer of the Assam-Meghalaya cadre, had overseen the process of updating NRC in Assam.
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Nearly two million people were excluded from the final version of the NRC list published on August 31 this year as part of an exercise to check illegal immigration.