In an abrupt move, the Supreme Court on Friday transferred NRC Assam Coordinator Prateek Hajela to Madhya Pradesh upon a reported personal request of the 1995 Assam-Meghalaya cadre IAS officer. The apex court said the transfer orders shall be issued by the centre/state “forthwith” and “in any case within seven days from today”. Though the Supreme Court bench of Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi, Justice S.A. Bobde and Justice R.F. Some organisations and individuals had also registered FIRs against Hajela in Assam, accusing him and several officials of intentionally excluding their names from the NRC. However, the applications were earlier dismissed by the apex court after which the final list was completed by August 31 this year.

Source: The Telegraph October 19, 2019 13:07 UTC