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In a tragic incident, a 14-year-old girl in Assam committed suicide allegedly after the names of members of her family were missing from the National Register of Citizens (NRC) draft which was released.
The girl, Noor Nahar Begum, a resident of Roumari chapori village in Nagaon hung herself on a dupatta after learning that the names of her family members were not included in the NRC.
According to the family, their names were not included in the first draft which was released in July last year, but they had hoped to get them added in the second draft which was released on Wednesday.
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But when they failed to see their names in the draft list, Noor, like others in her family became upset and allegedly killed herself.
“Her name was not included in the draft NRC published by Assam government last year. However, she was sure that her name will appear in the final NRC. Today, when the Assam government published an additional draft list of exclusion, Noor and her family took it to be the final NRC. Noor took the extreme step after her father went to the NRC Seva Kendra at Roumari and failed to find her name in the list and told her this over the phone,” a relative told IANS.
Darrang Superintendent of Police, Amrit Bhuyan, however, refuted the claims that the suicide was linked to the NRC and said that police investigation is on to ascertain the cause of the death.
“So far I have not received any report that the girl committed suicide due to NRC. However, our investigation is on,” he said.
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Assam government had on Wednesday published an additional Draft Exclusion List, consisting names of 102,462 persons, whose names were included in the Draft NRC published on July 30 last year but subsequently been found ineligible due to the different reasons.
The draft which was published on Wednesday is not the final list. It will be out on July 31.
The family, however, said that they were not aware of this and that they still had a chance to be in the NRC.
“We were not aware that the final NRC will be published on July 31st, 2019,” a family member said.
The NRC draft which was first published last year has left more than 40 lakh people in Assam effectively stateless as they have been declared as foreign nationals.
