The Supreme Court on Wednesday turned the spotlight on senior lawyer Indira Jaising and her society — Lawyers Collective — by issuing a notice on a petition that questioned the Centre's silence to prosecute her for alleged concealment of foreign income. The income was received by her society during her tenure as Additional Solicitor General (ASG) from July 2009 to May 2014. Besides Jaising, who serves as Secretary of Lawyers Collective, the bench of Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi and Justice Deepak Gupta issued a notice to the Centre and her husband Anand Grover, President of Lawyers Collective. The Ministry of Home Affairs had suspended the Foreign Contribution Regulatory Authority (FCRA) license of Lawyers Collective by an order of May 31, 2016. The petition also sought an independent probe as to whether as ASG, Jaising misused her office to influence government decisions to favour her foreign donors.

Source: dna May 08, 2019 23:37 UTC