Probe begins into NRC data leakage

Report to be submitted soon; FIR lodged

August 08, 2018 10:40 pm | Updated 10:40 pm IST - GUWAHATI

 Residents present before officials at a National Register of Citizens verification centre in Assam’s Morigaon district on July 11, 2018.

Residents present before officials at a National Register of Citizens verification centre in Assam’s Morigaon district on July 11, 2018.

The administration in southern Assam’s Cachar district has ordered a magisterial probe into the leakage of data related to the National Register of Citizens (NRC).

Files with names of people within the Silchar Sadar circle had been leaked out before the complete draft was published on July 30. “Two executive magistrates and a State civil service officer have been tasked with investigating the leakage and submit a report within 48 hours,” Cachar Deputy Commissioner S. Lakshmanan told newspersons on Wednesday.

He said the investigators would soon zero in on one of the NRC Nagarik Seva Kendras in the circle where the mischief might have been done.

Information pertaining specifically to the Madhurband area of Silchar had been leaked out 24 hours before the complete draft was published. An FIR was lodged in the local police station and a computer shop raided.

A grouping of 11 Left and democratic political parties and a forum against Citizenship (Amendment) Bill, 2016 on Wednesday said some forces within and beyond Assam were trying to derail the NRC exercise by giving it a communal slant.

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