New CJI Faces Trial by Fire??? SLP Fìled to Challenge the Constitutionality of the PMCARES Fund - A prominent marker of LootMaar Raj???

[Sukla Sen]

The Supreme Court, again, on trial!?

Had been consistently failing, starting with the Rafale judgement.

<<"It is a matter of great pity that this Hon'ble Court was misled by the Central Government into making the said observations, by blatantly lying, concealing and suppressing the material fact(s) that an ocean of public money is surreptitiously being poured into the PMCARES Fund by the Government ministries, agencies, and instrumentalities, as detailed below." 

The SLP lists that contributions from Direct Taxes, Indirect Taxes, Election Commission of India, Ministry of Corporate Affairs, Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare, Ministry of Labour and Employment, Ministry of Culture, Ministry of External Affairs, Dept. of Expenditure, Dept. of Revenue, Ministry of IT, Ministry of Law and Justice, Ministry of I&B, etc., among others, is being poured into the PMCARES Fund.

It also contends that the money, even from Government-controlled funds such as 'Assistance related to Bhopal Gas Leak Disaster' meant for the victims of the Bhopal Gas Tragedy, has not been spared and is also being drained into PM Cares Fund.

The petition highlights that this continues despite the Trust-Deed of the fund, lying that the trust is neither intended to be owned, controlled, or substantially financed by any Government or any instrumentality it argues.

"This shows that the intention behind the creation of this non-statutory Trust (PMCARES) by those in the helm of affairs of the Central Government, by the ordinary/registration route instead of by a legislation, while side-lining, bypassing and substituting the statutory NDRF and hoodwinking the 2005 Act, is not at all fair.">> 

(Excerpted from: <https://www.livelaw.in/top-stories/supreme-court-challenging-the-constitutionality-of-pm-cares-pmnrf-178787>.)