Nearly 2 million people have been left off a list of citizens released on Saturd...
GUWAHATI, India - Nearly 2 million people have been left off a list of citizens released on Saturday in India’s northeastern state of Assam, after a mammoth years-long exercise to check illegal immigration that critics said targeted the region’s Muslim minority.
Officials checked documents submitted by roughly 33 million people for a draft released last year of a National Register of Citizens in Assam, which left out more than 4 million residents of the state, many of them Hindu. Those excluded have 120 days to prove their citizenship at hundreds of regional quasi-judicial bodies known as foreigner’s tribunals. If ruled to be illegal immigrants there, they can appeal to higher courts.
Officials in Assam say they do not know what will eventually be done with those finally adjudged foreigners. Bangladesh has not committed to accepting them.
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