new Delhi. The Supreme Court on Friday refused to entertain a petition challenging the Allahabad High Court order which had dismissed a petition challenging the validity of the PM Cares Fund and the PM National Relief Fund (PMNRF).
Senior advocate Devdutt Kamat, appearing for the petitioner Divya Pal Singh, submitted Justice B. R. Along with Gavai, Justice L. Nageswara Rao that the High Court relied on the apex court’s decision in the matter of the NGO Center for Public Interest Litigation and dismissed the petitioner’s plea.
The bench asked the petitioner to return to the High Court with a review petition. “You go and file a review,” the bench said.
After a brief hearing in the matter, Kamat said he would withdraw the petition from the apex court and file a review petition in the high court. He said the petition before the High Court had sought disclosure of the money received and also challenged the legality of the money.
The petition states that the PMNRF, a public charitable trust, was created on January 24, 1948 and in 2005, when the Disaster Management Act was enacted, the National Disaster Relief Fund (NDRF) was created. It was argued that after the creation of the NDRF, the PMNRF lost its usefulness.
It was also argued that the Central Government created the PM CARES Fund on March 28, 2020, without passing any law to that effect and its inspection was also taken out of the purview of the RTI Act, 2005. The petition argued that the PM Cares Fund replaced a statutory fund, the NDRF, which diluted the Disaster Management Act, 2005.
—AnyTV News
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