Justice M.S.Sonak in an interim order on Monday restrained the Charity Commissioner from attaching the assets and accounts of the NGO. The high court also ordered defreezing of the domestic and non-FCRA bank accounts of the NGO. The Ministry had also directed that all bank accounts of the NGO be frozen and that its assets be attached. The NGO then approached the HC arguing that the MHA order that takes recourse of sections 22 and 15 of the FCRA was erroneous and that the sections had been misinterpreted. The Union government, through Additional Solicitor General Anil Singh, argued on the other hand that the MHA’s cancellation order was valid since the “trustees of Lawyers Collective had diverted the money received for the NGO for personal gains”.

Source: Mint January 31, 2017 12:11 UTC