Environment lawyer Ritwick Dutta and his NGO Legal Initiative for Forest and Environment (LIFE) have been booked by the Central Bureau of Investigation for allegedly violating the Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Act. The Union Home Ministry has accused LIFE of receiving funding from American non-profits, Earth Justice and the Sandler Foundation, to stage protests aimed at … Read more
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has filed an FIR against Ritwick Dutta, a leading environmental lawyer, for allegedly violating the Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Act. The CBI initiated an action based on a complaint filed by the Union Home Office, which claimed that Dutta’s organization, the Legal Initiative for Forests and the Environment (LIFE), was … Read more
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) filed a case against environmental lawyer Ritwick Dutta and his non-profit organization for alleged violation of foreign financing rules. The CBI alleged that Dutta received ₹41 Lakh in foreign contributions in fiscal year 2014 from ‘Earth Justice’, a US-based non-profit organization that funds environmental lawyers in various nations to … Read more
