Allahabad High Court launches the official website ‘Middle Income Group Legal Aid Society’
Allahabad High Court launches the official website ‘Middle Income Group Legal Aid Society’
The Allahabad High Court has taken an initiative to provide accessible justice with legal advice to the people of the middle-income group. The court has launched the website of Allahabad High Court ‘Middle Income Group Legal Aid Society’. The Middle Income Group Society will make arrangements for people falling in the middle income group to get legal advice, information and fight their case if needed, on free or extremely nominal charges.
According to the plan, people with annual income ranging from six to 12 lakh rupees will be considered in the middle income group. Only such people will be given legal aid. It will be the job of this Middle Income Group Legal Aid Society to provide legal aid to the needy, their counselling, legal treatment and represent them in the court if required.
Apart from this, there will also be benefits in the matters of arbitration and settlement centre and arbitration.
The specialty of this service is that arrangements have been made to give its benefits to people living in remote areas. For this, people entitled to this facility will be made available through e-mail, video call or social media platform. The aim is to save people from not taking unnecessary travel. Its benefits will also be available to old people, people with disabilities and other people who are not eligible to travel. There is no cost for consultation and benefits of this facility.
Only a stated token amount will be charged to represent the case in court. The official website of this facility will be available in both Hindi and English languages. To get the benefit of this, the entitled people will have to send their talk and problems in detail to the official website.
The petitioner will get an order regarding acceptance or rejection of that application within 15 days of sending. If the application filed is rejected, the person will make the applicant aware of the reason for the rejection of the nominated advocate of a panel.
By Priya Kumari
