NEW DELHI: In a big relief to the Greenpeace India, the Delhi high court on Wednesday permitted it to use its two domestic accounts to receive fresh domestic donations.
The court also pulled up banks for not following its earlier direction to allow the Greenpeace India to access its account.
It also allowed the NGO, whose seven accounts were frozen by the home ministry for alleged violation of the FCRA rules on April 9, to liquidate its fixed deposits.
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The order comes in response to the Greenpeace India’s writ petition calling for the immediate unblocking of the organisation’s bank accounts.
Though the home ministry had during the hearing repeated its previous allegation about Greenpeace’s domestic and FCRA accounts, the green NGO denied it and gave its full response to the home ministry’s show cause notice.
It said, “In order to keep the accounts absolutely clean, the transfers are first made out of the Indian funds. If any of the expenses incurred can be charged to our foreign accounts, we then make a reimbursement into the Indian accounts. This is in no way a violation of the FCRA.”
TOI | May 27, 2015
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