SC seeks govt response on challenge to FCRA norms
Dhananjay.Mahapatra@timesgroup.com
New Delhi:08.09.2021
The Supreme Court on Tuesday sought the Centre’s response to a joint petition by two NGOs, one of which is run by the former director of the social service centre of Catholic Diocese of Vijayawada in Andhra Pradesh, challenging the recent amendments to the Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Act on the ground that it impeded disbursement of foreign funds to provide succour to the marginalised sections of the country’s population.
A bench of Justices A M Khanwilkar, Hrishikesh Roy and CT Ravikumar asked the Centre to file its response within three weeks to a joint petition filed by Noel Harper and Nigel Mills of Share and Care Foundation in Andhra Pradesh and Joseph Lizy and Annamma Joachim of National Workers Welfare Trust in Telangana.
Appearing for the Union government, additional solicitor general Sanjay Jain and advocate Kanu Agrawal said that the main grievance of the petitioners appear to be the difficulty in assessing foreign funds and their disbursement.
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