SC calls for NALSA's report on plea to implement women integrated help system across India
Supreme Court on Friday called for a report from the National Legal Services Authority (NALSA) on a plea seeking a direction to implement the NALSA women integrated help system, which provides a hassle-free access to justice to women victims of violence, in all states and Union territories. The plea said the project is operating on a pilot scale in Jammu and Kashmir and Chhattisgarh for the last three years.
The petition said it is a technology integrated system of the 181 women helpline, the NALSA legal aid helpline 15100 and all other government schemes that are meant to provide women and girl victims of violence a hassle-free access to the criminal justice system, and empower and protect them from violence.
The plea came up for hearing before a bench of Justices Sanjay Kishan Kaul and Sudhanshu Dhulia.
Senior advocate Colin Gonsalves, appearing for petitioners The National Federation of Societies for Fast Justice and Aman Satya Kachroo Trust, said the results have been extraordinary in Jammu and Kashmir and Chhattisgarh.
«Before we proceed further in the matter, we would call for a report from the NALSA qua the scheme, which the petitioner seeks implementation of.
Let the needful be done within three weeks. List after four weeks,» the bench said.
During the hearing, the bench observed that at times, pilot projects are taken up, but that does not mean that it would be applied all over in one go.
«NALSA also works under a budget.
