Mohammad Sanaullah, the retired Indian Army junior commissioned officer(JCO) who couldn't make it to the final NRC list since his appeal against the Foreigners' Tribunal's order was pending in Gauhati High Court, says he will wait for the High Court to decide his appeal before considering his next move. He added that he had hoped for "some last minute change", but that didn't happen.

Assam Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal on Tuesday apprised Union Home Minister Amit Shah about the current status of the NRC exercise in a meeting and sought additional central forces ahead of publication of the final list on August 31. The meeting took place hours after the Supreme Court ordered that the list of those excluded from the final NRC only be published online.

The SC brushed aside criticism and statements made in Assam-Assembly and outside relating to the exercise carried-out for NRC and said it wanted the deadline of August-31 be adhered to. The bench, which is monitoring the Assam NRC exercise, said it was not concerned with any of such-statements and was only looking at the entire-exercise of NRC being completed within the deadline of August-31.