GUWAHATI: A 14-year-old girl, Noor Nahar Begum, in Darrang district of Assam committed suicide because her name was missing from the draft NRC list ‘twice’.
The family was not aware of the fact that the newly published list was not the final National Register of Citizens (NRC).
Noor was a resident of Roumari Chapori village in Darrang. She hanged herself with the dupatta she was wearing.
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One of the relatives of Noor said, ‘’She 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.”
The relative furhter added, “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.”
The police have been investigating the incident.
On 26 June, Assam government published the additional draft exclusion list consisting names of 102,462 persons.
The list includes the people who have been found ineligible for inclusion in the final NRC list which will be published on July 31.