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After the Home Ministry suspended Indira Jaising’s NGO licence for six months for alleged FCRA violations, the NGO Lawyers Collective condemned the move saying that it has been done to “suppress the voice of dissent”.
The statement released the by the NGO said, “It is far too well to know that both Anand Grover and Indira Jaising have represented several persons in their professional capacity as lawyers in several cases against the government and the functionaries including the president of the BJP party, Amit Shah protesting his discharge in the Sorabudin murder case.”
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Challenging the order, the NGO stated that all the foreign contributions received by them were spent “for the purposes received and accounted for”.
“The allegation against Jaising was based on the footing that she was a government servant, who was prohibited from receiving FC under the FCRA. However, she was a public servant and not a government servant, on whom there was no bar to receive FC,” the statement added.
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Earlier the notice sent to the NGO said that during the course of adjudication whereby defence, explanations, documents were submitted by the NGO, “we have arrived at a prima facie conclusion” that the Association was in violation of various provisions of FCRA.
However, the Lawyers Collective has refuted the allegations.
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