The Centre on Thursday moved the Supreme Court seeking extension of time for completing formalities to transfer Assam NRC Coordinator Prateek Hajela to Madhya Pradesh. The top-court on October-18 had ordered the Centre and the Assam government to transfer Mr Hajela to his native state Madhya Pradesh within seven-days. The top-court has already posted the petitions on Assam NRC for further hearing on November-26.

The family of a man who died while in detention after being declared a foreigner, has refused to accept his body unless the administration-declares him a-Indian-citizen. Dulal Chandra Paul, 65-year-old man from Alisinga-village of Assam's Sonitpur-district, died at the Guwahati-Medical-College on Sunday after an illness. The family claimed since the state has declared him a "foreigner", they should hand over his body to Bangladesh.

Bangladesh said it is keeping an eye on developments related to the NRC in Assam even as India conveyed to it that the issue is an internal matter of the country. Bangladesh Foreign Secretary Shahidul Haque said their Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina raised the issue with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi during wide-ranging talks and he explained to her about the NRC process.