‘Centre didn’t order freezing financial institution accounts’: MHA refutes Mamata’s claims

After West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee’s declare that the central authorities froze all financial institution accounts of Mother Teresa’s Missionaries of Charity, the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) has acknowledged that it didn’t freeze any accounts of Missionaries of Charity. MHA additional revealed that it was the Missionaries of Charity individuals who despatched a request to SBI, wanting the financial institution to freeze its accounts.
Ministry of Home Affairs didn’t freeze any accounts of Missionaries of Charity (MoC). State Bank of India (SBI) has knowledgeable that MoC itself despatched a request to SBI to freeze its accounts: MHA— ANI (@ANI) December 27, 2021
Additionally, MHA knowledgeable that Missionaries of Charity (MoC) was denied the permission to resume its FCRA registration underneath Foreign Contribution Regulation Act (FCRA) and the renewal software of MoC was rejected on the grounds of not assembly eligibility circumstances underneath FCRA 2010 & Foreign Contribution Regulation Rules (FCRR), 2011.
MHA says the renewal software underneath ForeignContribution Regulation Act (FCRA) for renewal of FCRA registration of Missionaries of Charity (MoC) was refused on 25 Dec for not assembly eligibility circumstances underneath FCRA 2010 & Foreign ContributionRegulation Rules (FCRR), 2011.— ANI (@ANI) December 27, 2021
After MHA, Missionaries of Charity points clarification, says its FCRA registration has not been cancelled, suspended
The clarification from the Ministry of Home Affairs got here within the wake of allegations levelled by Mamata Banerjee that the Centre had frozen the financial institution accounts of Mother Teresa’s Missionaries of Charity(MoC) in India. In addition to the MHA, even Missionaries of Charity have issued a press release over the matter. The group stated its FCRA registration is neither cancelled nor suspended. Further, there isn’t a freeze ordered by the MHA on any of the financial institution accounts, MoC stated.
FCRA registration of Missionaries of Charity (MoC) has been neither suspended nor cancelled. Further there isn’t a freeze ordered by the MHA on any of our financial institution accounts: Missionaries of Charity (MoC) pic.twitter.com/DNE2HsotvG— ANI (@ANI) December 27, 2021
“We have been informed that our FCRA renewal application has not been approved. Therefore, as a measure to ensure there is no lapse, we have asked our centres not to operate any of the FC accounts until the matter is resolved,” MoC stated in a press release.
Mamata Banerjee’s allegations
West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee on Monday tweeted that the central authorities had frozen all financial institution accounts of Mother Teresa’s Missionaries of Charity in India. “Shocked to hear that on Christmas, Union Ministry FROZE ALL BANK ACCOUNTS of Mother Teresa’s Missionaries of Charity in India! Their 22,000 patients & employees have been left without food & medicines. While the law is paramount, humanitarian efforts must not be compromised,” Mamata Banerjee tweeted.
Similar claims have been additionally made by CPI(M) state secretary and opposition chief Surjya Kanta Mishra who claimed that together with financial institution accounts, the federal government had additionally frozen money in palms of the Missionaries of Charity.