Citizens for Justice and Peace
CJP trains paralegals to help Indians defend their citizenship Legal luminaries share knowledge with over 100 participants in Guwahati
26-Aug-2019
CJP has just concluded a three day paralegal training workshop in Guwahati in the run up to the publication of the final NRC on August 31, 2019. The objective of the workshop was to equip local, district level lawyers and paralegal volunteers with in-depth skills and training to navigate the complex issue of citizenship after…
Gov’t bats for Legal Aid for those excluded from NRC MHA extends deadline to file appeals, AASU objects
26-Aug-2019
On August 20, 2019, Assam’s Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal and Union Home Minister Amit Shah held discussions on the impending situation arising out the final publication of the National Register of Citizens (NRC) list on August 31,2019. Following these meetings, local media reported that a policy decision has been taken to give legal aid to all those…
Watch: Re-verification notices spark panic in Assam, SC order violated? Assam NRC process causes chaos
05-Aug-2019
Thousands of re-verification notices have been served in lower Assam summoning people for hearings, virtually overnight, in places as much as 600 kilometers away. Apart from being in clear violation of the July 23, 2019 order of the Supreme Court that turned down the state and center’s demand for such re-verification, poor access to transportation…
CJP in Action: Additional Exclusion list released, our team swings into action in Assam CJP volunteers counsel distressed families, help with procedure and paperwork
31-Jul-2019
June 26 brought more bad news for the people of Assam, when an Additional Exclusion list was released as per which 1,02,462 more people will be excluded from the NRC. This is in addition to the 40, 07,707 who had been excluded from the draft NRC published on July 30, 2018. This has caused widespread…
I live on the streets and sleep under the stars: Anjaan Musafir 2.0 Another Assam man on the run after being declared ‘foreigner’
26-Jul-2019
Last year, we brought you the story of Anjaan Musafir, a daily wage labourer from Guwahati who has been on the run for over 20 years after being served a D Voter notice. During our visit to Assam in June 2019, we met yet another man who fled his home fearing incarceration in one of Assam’s infamous…
SC rejects government’s appeal for re-verification, extends NRC deadline One month extension granted
23-Jul-2019
The Supreme Court has extended the deadline for publication of the National Register of Citizens (NRC) in Assam to August 31, 2019. It has however turned down the appeals for re-verification of names in border areas. Previously, the court had directed the NRC authorities to publish the list by July 31, 2019, but NRC state coordinator…
How a government and bureaucracy betrayed its people The Telegraph
22-Jul-2019
No section of Assam’s population has been left unaffected by the overpowering, State-created tragedy of the NRC. So far, at least in ‘mainland’ India, we have been relatively insulated from the tortures and traumas caused by public authorities demanding proof of whether or not we are Indian. In the far corners of Assam, however, turmoil…
Citizenship Dilemma in Assam Why Section 9 of the Foreigners Act, 1946, should be revisited
19-Jul-2019
Despite the passage of seven decades since the independence of the country, the debate on citizenship is far from over. The recent engagement with the construction of the National Register of Citizens(NRC) in the state of Assam, has again opened the flood gates of contestation on the citizenship question. Cardinal to this debate is the…
Citizens for Assam: A Quest for Hope and Justice CJP takes delegation of eminent lawyers and senior journalists to Assam
01-Jul-2019
On June 26, the National Register of Citizens (NRC) authority released an additional list of over one lakh names of people excluded from the NRC. The following day CJP took a delegation of senior lawyers and journalists to Assam to assess ground realities as well as devise a strategy to help genuine Indian citizens, especially…
CJP इन एक्शन – प्रभावित परिवारों को सुनवाई के दौरान मिला सहारा असम में किस प्रकार CJP के वालंटियर्स NRC प्रभावित लोगों की सुनवाई प्रक्रिया में मदद कर रहे हैं
21-Jun-2019
CJP कम्युनिटी वालंटियर्स (CVs) और डिस्ट्रिक्ट वॉलंटियर मोटिवेटर (DVM) असम में NRC की अंतिम सूची जारी होने से पहले प्रक्रिया के अंतिम चरण के दौरान लोगों को दावे और आपत्तियों की सुनवाई के लिए दिन-रात मदद कर रहे हैं। सुप्रीम कोर्ट के निर्देश के अनुसार सुनवाई 6 मई को शुरू हुई, NRC की अंतिम सूची 31 जुलाई से पहले ही प्रकाशित होनी है। समय…
CJP in Action: Volunteers assist families during objection hearings Ground report on how CJP VMs help people excluded from NRC overcome challenges
10-Jun-2019
CJP Community Volunteers (CVs) and the District Volunteer Motivators (DVMs) are working round the clock to help people with the Claims and Objections hearings taking place in Assam in the last leg of the process before the National Register of Citizens (NRC) is published. The hearings began May 6 and as per the directions of…
SC directs NRC authorities to ensure fair Claims and Objections hearings Also makes recommendation about hiring judges for Foreigners’ Tribunals
01-Jun-2019
Offering some relief to lakhs of people who have filed applications and are attending hearings as a part of the Claims and Objections process of the National Register of Citizens (NRC), the Supreme Court has directed the NRC authority to ensure that the people receive a fair hearing. On May 30, a bench led by…
Objection raised against inclusion in NRC, man found dead in Assam Family alleges suicide
27-May-2019
In a heartbreaking instance of man succumbing to hopelessness, Ashrab Ali, a 93 year old man, was found dead in Assam’s Kamrup district after someone filed an objection application against the inclusion of his name in the National Register of Citizens (NRC). His family alleges he committed suicide by consuming poison. “His name was…
NRC Objections filed against Renowned Assamese People Objectors' details missing, red flags raised
18-May-2019
Har Kumar Goswami is a prominent electrical engineer, innovator and small industrialist of Assam. He is best known for the many unique electrical appliances he designs and manufactures in his own lab as these products have several special features and yet are quite affordable. But these days Goswami is unable to give time to his unique…
EXCLUSIVE! People forced to file False NRC Objections in Assam Members of ABSU coercing people to file up to 10 false applications in Kokrajhar
09-May-2019
In several shocking instances of the abuse and subversion of the NRC process in Assam, it has come to light that people have been forced to file Objection applications against others whose names have appeared in the NRC. We have copies of complaints filed by some such people from Kokrajhar district of Assam, who claim that…