Overview

• The bench of Justices P.S. Narasimha and Atul Chandurkar issued notices to the Union government, Assam government, the State NRC Coordinator, and the Registrar General of India.
• Hitesh Dev Sarma, a former Assam NRC coordinator, filed the petition asserting the current register cannot be treated as final or authentic.
• The plea alleges verification loopholes that let ineligible names be included while excluding genuine citizens, and it seeks a complete re-check.
• Senior advocate Manish Goswami told the court the goal is an error-free register, describing major discrepancies in the 2019 list.
• The court has sought responses from all parties before further hearings, as earlier state proposals called for only partial re-examination and the chief minister alleged data manipulation during the update.