A bench of Justices BR Gavai, Aravind Kumar, and Prashant Kumar Mishra made its earlier order 'absolute' of granting interim anticipatory bail to Srinivas after being apprised that he had cooperated with the investigation.
The final NRC was released on August 31, 2019 by excluding names of 19,06,657 persons. A total of 3,11,21,004 names were included out of 3,30,27,661 applicants.