Citizens for Justice and Peace
SC grants more time to file NRC Claims in Assam More than 2.5 million people yet to file claims!
12-Dec-2018
In a welcome breather for Indian citizens in Assam, the Supreme Court has granted a deadline extension for filing applications under the Claims and Objections process. The Supreme Court had previously set December 15 as the deadline, but now it has extended it to December 31, 2018. The SC bench comprising Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi…
Impossible deadline for filing NRC Claim forms threatens future of 32 lakh people! Less than 10 days to go, 80 percent claim forms yet to be submitted
05-Dec-2018
Even as the December 15 deadline for filing NRC Claim forms looms large, nearly 32 lakh people are yet to file their claims. Over the last 73 days, only 8,10,000 people have been able to complete the process. That comes to approximately 11,095 application filed per day. Given how now there are less than ten…
CJP Impact: NRC Authority relaxes stand on SOPs for Claims and Objections Process Move comes day after CJP Facebook Live exposes how women and children are suffering
23-Nov-2018
On November 21, CJP Secretary Teesta Setalvad and our Assam Project Coordinator Zamser Ali appeared together on a Facebook Live broadcast to highlight the plight of people who were facing several challenges in filing claims to have their names included in the National Register of Citizens (NRC). A day after this, NRC State Coordinator Prateek…
Petition against Assam’s Detention Camps in SC Harsh Mander moves apex court to put an end to the inhuman conditions in which 'Declared Foreigners' are lodged
22-Nov-2018
Human Rights activist Harsh Mander has moved Supreme Court siting the deplorable conditions of Assam’s Detention Camps. These camps are where people who have been declared foreigners by Foreigners’ Tribunals are lodged pending deportation or bail. Presently there are six detention camps operating out of makeshift facilities in local prisons in Dhibrugarh, Jorhat, Goalpara, Silchar,…
CJP Launches App to aid in Filing NRC Claims in Assam App will help volunteers collect data and streamline process
21-Nov-2018
Assam is on the precipice of a major crisis, with more than 40 lakh people being left out of its National Register of Citizens. In spite of the claims and objections process having begun, and less than one month before it concludes, more than 35 lakh people have reportedly not yet applied to be included…
Handcuffed in hospital, Assam man fights for his life Ratan Chandra Biswas spent 2.5 years in a detention camp
06-Nov-2018
Illegally framed as a “foreigner”, Ratan Chandra Biswas, is handcuffed in the Goalpara hospital Civil Hospital, battling for his life. Emaciated and shivering, his condition is bitter testimony to the ghastly conditions in Assam’s six detention camps, where over 2,000 persons are estimated to be incarcerated. Guwahati, November 4: Ratan Chandra Biswas, framed as a…
SC grants relief to the people of Assam, rejects attempt to subvert NRC process Ruling comes as major relief to lakhs excluded from NRC
01-Nov-2018
Providing relief to lakhs of Assamese, the Supreme Court today allowed the inclusion of all fifteen documents for the ongoing claims process of the National Register of Citizens (NRC). The verdict deals a blow to NRC state coordinator Shri Prateek Hajela’s contention that five specific documents be dropped from the list of documents required to…
NRC Coordinator’s stand in SC based on hypotheses, will dilute NRC Process (Part Two) CJP continues its analysis of NRC Coordinator, Prateek Hajela's Affidavit
31-Oct-2018
The affidavit submitted by NRC state Co-ordinator, Prateek Hajela in the Supreme Court of India, strongly opposing five crucial documents to be allowed in the ‘Claims’ process, apart from going back on NRC’s own established procedures, also contains hypothetical and unsubstantiated theories. In Part One of our analyses we have laid down how this sudden about…
Is there a wider conspiracy to derail the NRC ? (Part One) Confidential Report of Coordinator, Prateek Hajela contains not only Falsehoods and Propaganda but is also Self Contradictory
29-Oct-2018
If those among the 40 lakh plus persons whose names have been dropped from the final draft of NRC, are not permitted by an ill-advised and belated order of the Supreme Court, to reject the NRC-1951 and Voters list (up to the midnight March 24, 1971 as sufficient proof of citizenship) the core issue that…
Teesta Setalvad and Zamser Ali take you through CJP’s Initiatives in Assam Watch a video of our Live Facebook chat!
20-Oct-2018
In this live video chat held on Facebook recently, CJP secretary Teesta Setalvad and CJP’s Assam initiative coordinator Zamser Ali discuss the various initiatives on ground as well as the challenges faced in our outreach program. If you are an Indian citizen in Assam and need any help in filing your application as a part…