Foreign fund ban on Jaising`s NGO |
The government of India has barred former additional solicitor general (ASG) Indira Jaising`s NGO Lawyers Collective from receiving foreign funds for 180 days with immediate effect and asked why its licence under the Foreign Contributions (Regulation) Act, 2010, should not be cancelled over misuse and diversion of foreign contributions, including for payment of Rs 96.60 lakh as remuneration to Jaising while she was ASG. Lawyers Collective was quick to condemn the action as "malafide" and "vindictive", alleging it was a fallout of the cases that the NGO and its trustees were involved in, including those relating to dismissed Gujarat cadre IPS officer Sanjiv Bhatt, 1993 Mumbai blasts convict Yakub Memon and Greenpeace activist Priya Pillai. It also recalled how both Jaising and her lawyer husband Anand Grover had represented persons in cases against the government/BJP functionaries including Amit Shah. The home ministry order, listing a series of FCRA violations against Lawyers Collective, said "in exercise of powers conferred by Section 14 of the FCRA, 2010, the central government hereby directs Lawyers Collective... to show cause within 30 days of receipt of this notice as to why its FCRA registration should not be cancelled".
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