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Ritwick Dutta and his non-profit LIFE faces a CBI case for alleged foreign funding rules violation<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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A case has been filed against environmental lawyer Ritwick Dutta and his non-profit by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) for alleged violation of foreign funding rules.<\/p>\n
Mr Dutta, who has co-authored a book on forest conservation with Environment Minister Bhupender Yadav, runs the non-profit Legal Initiative for Forest and Environment (LIFE).<\/p>\n
The CBI alleged Mr Dutta got Rs 41 Lakh in foreign contributions in fiscal 2014 from US-based ‘Earth Justice’, a non-profit that funds environment lawyers in several nations to litigate against coal projects.<\/p>\n
Mr Dutta then created LIFE Proprietorship, which subsequently received Rs 22 crore from Earth Justice during 2016 to 2021 as “professional receipt”, the CBI said.<\/p>\n
The CBI alleged Earth Justice and another US-based non-profit, Sandler Foundation, have been planning to fund legal activism and take down India’s existing and proposed coal projects, which is a violation of the Foreign Contribution Regulation Act (FCRA).<\/p>\n
The investigators said these funds were meant to harm India’s national and economic security.<\/p>\n
They said the European Climate Foundation is also routing $120,000 via Earth Justice to Mr Dutta’s LIFE for litigation, and so the cases that LIFE is fighting in India are actually funded by the foreign non-profits, which are not the litigants.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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