{"id":313960,"date":"2019-07-11T06:01:49","date_gmt":"2019-07-11T06:01:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=313960"},"modified":"2019-07-11T06:01:49","modified_gmt":"2019-07-11T06:01:49","slug":"cbi-raids-senior-lawyers-indira-jaising-anand-grover-in-foreign-funding-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/cbi-raids-senior-lawyers-indira-jaising-anand-grover-in-foreign-funding-case\/","title":{"rendered":"CBI raids senior lawyers Indira Jaising, Anand Grover in foreign funding case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-313961 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/indira-jaising.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"508\" height=\"491\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/07\/indira-jaising.jpg 508w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/07\/indira-jaising-300x290.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/07\/indira-jaising-435x420.jpg 435w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 508px) 100vw, 508px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The CBI on Thursday raided homes and offices of senior lawyers Indira Jaising and Anand Grover for allegedly violating a law on foreign funding for their NGO.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The searches began at around 5 am at the Nizamuddin residence and office of Jaising, the office of the NGO in Jangpura and an office in Mumbai<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Earlier, the investigation agency had filed a case against the two and the NGO Lawyers Collective of violation of the Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Act (FCRA).on the basis of a complaint from the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA), which has alleged numerous discrepancies in the utilisation of foreign aid.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Grover and his NGO have been\u00a0accused of misusing foreign aids\u00a0and spending the funds outside India.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">However, Lawyers\u00a0Collective had denied all charges levelled by the\u00a0CBI.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal in his tweet strongly condemned the raids. \u201cI strongly condemn CBI raids on well known senior advocates @IJaising and Mr Anand Grover. Let the law take its own course but subjecting veterans who have all through their lives fought for upholding the rule of law &amp; Constitutional values is clear vendetta,\u201d Kejriwal tweeted.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The CBI on Thursday raided homes and offices of senior lawyers Indira Jaising and Anand Grover for allegedly violating a law on foreign funding for their NGO. The searches began at around 5 am at the Nizamuddin residence and office of Jaising, the office of the NGO in Jangpura and an office in Mumbai Earlier, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":313961,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1961,2100,2009,2014,2026],"tags":[11613,435,3276,11612],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313960"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=313960"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313960\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":313962,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313960\/revisions\/313962"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/313961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=313960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=313960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=313960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}