Civil societies condemn govt action against Indira Jaising’s NGO

Representatives of civil societies have condemned the MHA persecuting Lawyers Collective (LC), Indira Jaising and Anand Grover.  A statement, signed by over 100 NGO representatives, read, “We condemn the suspension of LC’s the FCRA registration, as well as the malafide and motivated manner in which the MHA, in a blatant violation of law, leaked the suspension notice to the press even before providing LC with a copy of it.”

“There has been a systematic campaign and abuse of the legal process by the Centre to malign Jaising and Grover as well as LC for over six months. The suspension of LC’s FCRA registration is an escalation of the government’s campaign to crush dissent and criminalise people or organisations that question or oppose the violation of fundamental/ human rights by the state,” it stated.