CBI books well-known environmental lawyer Ritwik Dutta for FCRA violation
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NEW DELHI: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has registered an FIR in the direction of well-known environmental lawyer Ritwik Dutta for alleged violations of the Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Act.
The movement was taken in response to a criticism from the Union Home Ministry alleging that Dutta’s organisation, LIFE, was receiving funds from USA-based Earth Justice (EJ) to litigate in the direction of Indian coal duties with the intention of “targeting and stalling them”, a observe that the ministry deemed a “violation of FCRA”.
The criticism, which is now part of the FIR named Dutta, the winner of many reputed awards along with Sweden’s completely different to the Nobel Prize often called the Right Livelihood Award for 2021 for its effort to protect the environment in India by way of the utilization of the laws.
The criticism alleged that LIFE had acquired money from EJ (Earth Justice USA), disguised as “professional receipts”, which have been actually imagined to fund the concentrating on and stalling of progress duties.
The criticism moreover said that Dutta’s advocacy group Legal Initiative for Forest and Environment (LIFE) was not providing licensed suggestion to EJ for financial consideration nevertheless allegedly receiving worldwide funds to stall progress duties.
The CBI FIR alleged that Dutta had acquired Rs.41 lakh in worldwide contributions in Financial Year 2013-14 from EJ, and had subsequently established LIFE Proprietorship, which had acquired Rs.22 crores all through Financial Years 2016-21 inside the kind of expert receipts.
According to the criticism, EJ is an American NGO that allegedly provides funding to licensed professionals in quite a few nations to litigate in the direction of coal duties, and funds had continued to flow into from EJ to Dutta for that operate.
The criticism moreover alleged that EJ and the Sandler Foundation inside the US had proposed to fund licensed activism geared towards “taking down” India’s current or proposed coal duties, which could be a violation of FCRA and harmful to India’s nationwide monetary security.
Additionally, it alleged that ECF (European Climate Foundation) was routing USD 120,000 by way of EJ to LIFE for litigation, even if EJ and ECF weren’t litigants in any of the circumstances by which LIFE was the litigant.
NEW DELHI: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has registered an FIR in the direction of well-known environmental lawyer Ritwik Dutta for alleged violations of the Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Act.
The movement was taken in response to a criticism from the Union Home Ministry alleging that Dutta’s organisation, LIFE, was receiving funds from USA-based Earth Justice (EJ) to litigate in the direction of Indian coal duties with the intention of “targeting and stalling them”, a observe that the ministry deemed a “violation of FCRA”.
The criticism, which is now part of the FIR named Dutta, the winner of many reputed awards along with Sweden’s completely different to the Nobel Prize often called the Right Livelihood Award for 2021 for its effort to protect the environment in India by way of the utilization of the laws.googletag.cmd.push(function() googletag.present(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); );
The criticism alleged that LIFE had acquired money from EJ (Earth Justice USA), disguised as “professional receipts”, which have been actually imagined to fund the concentrating on and stalling of progress duties.
The criticism moreover said that Dutta’s advocacy group Legal Initiative for Forest and Environment (LIFE) was not providing licensed suggestion to EJ for financial consideration nevertheless allegedly receiving worldwide funds to stall progress duties.
The CBI FIR alleged that Dutta had acquired Rs.41 lakh in worldwide contributions in Financial Year 2013-14 from EJ, and had subsequently established LIFE Proprietorship, which had acquired Rs.22 crores all through Financial Years 2016-21 inside the kind of expert receipts.
According to the criticism, EJ is an American NGO that allegedly provides funding to licensed professionals in quite a few nations to litigate in the direction of coal duties, and funds had continued to flow into from EJ to Dutta for that operate.
The criticism moreover alleged that EJ and the Sandler Foundation inside the US had proposed to fund licensed activism geared towards “taking down” India’s current or proposed coal duties, which could be a violation of FCRA and harmful to India’s nationwide monetary security.
Additionally, it alleged that ECF (European Climate Foundation) was routing USD 120,000 by way of EJ to LIFE for litigation, even if EJ and ECF weren’t litigants in any of the circumstances by which LIFE was the litigant.
