Two FIRs have been lodged against the Assam Coordinator of the National Register of Citizens (NRC), Prateek Hajela, for "discrepancies" in the final updated list, police said on Thursday, 5 September.
A lawyer as well an indigenous Muslim students organisation -- All Assam Goriya-Moriya Yuva Chatra Parishad (AAGMYCP) -- filed separate FIRs against Hajela in Dibrugarh and Guwahati, they said.
According to the police, Chandan Mazumdar, whose name does not figure in the final NRC list, filed the complaint against Hajela at Dibrugarh police station on Wednesday.
Mazumdar alleged that he had submitted all documents, but his name was not included in the updated NRC due to "inefficiency and criminal conspiracy of employees".
The FIR claims that Hajela is responsible for the “discrepancies”, as he was tasked with supervising the NRC updation exercise in Assam.
Another complaint was lodged against the state coordinator at Guwahati's Latasil police station on Tuesday by the AAGMYCP, claiming "deliberate" anomalies in the final list.
"The names of many indigenous people were excluded from the list, and it was done deliberately by the NRC state coordinator," the FIR filed by the students organisation said.
The police, however, is yet to register a case based on the second FIR.
Hajela was not available for comments, as he has been barred by the Supreme Court from speaking to the media.
A third complaint was also filed by NGO Assam Public Works (APW) at Guwahati's Geetanagar police station against three declared foreigners, whose names figured in the final NRC, and against the NRC authorities of Morigaon, who were allegedly responsible for including their names.
The APW was the original petitioner in the Supreme Court, which led to the updation of the NRC six years ago.
A total of 3,30,27,661 people had applied to be included in the NRC. Of them, 3,11,21,004 have been included in the document and 19,06,657 excluded, the NRC State Coordinator's office had said on 31 August.
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