New Delhi: The central government was finding it difficult to get the cooperation of states on the issue relating to disbursal of compensation to the victims of sexual assault under the Nirbhaya fund, the Supreme Court was on Wednesday told.
The Nirbhaya Fund was announced by the Centre in 2013 after the sensational December 16, 2012 gangrape and murder case in Delhi to support the initiatives of the governments and the NGOs working towards safety of women.
A bench comprising Justices Madan B Lokur, S Abdul Nazeer and Deepak Gupta was told by senior advocate Indira Jaising, an amicus curiae in the matter, that the Centre wanted a direction to the states in this regard.
"The concern expressed by the Centre is that they are finding it difficult to have cooperation from the states. They want a direction from the court," she told the bench.
Jaising also informed the apex court that she has gone through 36 schemes related to compensation to be disbursed to victims of sexual assault under the Nirbhaya fund and has extracted the best practices which could be looked into by the bench.
"You please file the documents so that we can also go through it," the bench told Jaising and posted the matter for hearing on October 12.