Won’t separate children from families for now: Centre to SC on Assam NRC

Mangalore Today News Network

Assam, Jan 06, 2020: Parents who have been included in Assam’s register of citizens but their children have not will not be separated for now, the Centre’s top law officer KC Venugopal promised the Supreme Court on Monday, Hindustan Times reported.

 

The top court was hearing a request filed by a non-profit that complained there were 60 children in detention centres because their citizenship was yet to be established. In these 60 cases, the application said, one or both parents had made it to the citizens’ register but the children were detained because they could not clear the citizenship test.

“I cannot conceive children being sent to detention centres. Where parents have been given citizenship through National Register of Citizens, the children will not be sent to detention centres for now,” Attorney General KK Venugopal told the Supreme Court.

A bench led by Chief Justice of India SA Bobde told the government to file an affidavit in four weeks.