Pradyot Bikram Manikya Debbarma, the royal scion of Tripura, has pleaded the Supreme Court to implement an Assam-like National Registrar of Citizens (NRC) to fend off “illegal infiltration” into the state, North East Now reported.
According to the report, Debbarma submitted a writ petition before the apex court on Wednesday, 24 October.
Debbarma had filed the writ petition in his individual capacity and not as a political personality, according to North East Now.
Tripura shares an international border with Bangladesh
The Supreme Court had earlier issued a notice to the state government on a public interest litigation (PIL) to update the register in Tripura, Economic Times reported.
A three-judge bench, led by Chief Justice of India Ranjan Gogoi, had directed the court registry to tag the PIL, filed by the Tripura People’s Front and others, along with petitions in the Assam NRC case.
The first draft of the NRC in Assam was published in January this year
The draft listed 1.90 crore names out of the 3.29 crore applicants. The remaining were found to be lacking valid papers which could qualify them as citizens of India.
According to NDTV, The Citizenship (Amendment) Bill, 2016, was introduced in the Lok Sabha to amend the Citizenship Act, 1955, to grant Indian citizenship to Hindus, Sikhs, Buddhists, Jains, Parsis and Christians, who fled religious persecution in Bangladesh, Pakistan and Afghanistan and entered India before December 31, 2014.
(With inputs from North East Now and Economic Times )
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