According to the MHA, it has not received any request from the MoC to review the rejection of renewal at this stage.
FCRA and its rules do not specify any procedure for any such review. When it comes to registration and renewal, much of the process is unwritten, explained to the people working on these matters. The Quint,
The process for both takes a long time (even the renewal process, along with the evaluation of the documentation, takes about nine months), and the applicant is expected to work with the MHA and other ministries to ensure Make efforts that their applications are accepted and any issues are resolved.
As long as there is no political issue in the game, most problems can be solved if the organization is not actually trying to circumvent the rules.
Attempts to challenge such decisions in courts have also not been entirely fruitful. When the FCRA registration of Lawyers Collective, a legal NGO run by eminent senior advocate Indira Jaising and her husband Anand Grover, was canceled in 2018, they filed a writ petition against the government’s decision in the Bombay High Court.
However, while the High Court had said that no coercive action should be taken against him in respect of this matter, it has failed to hear or decide the correctness of the cancellation for the last three years.
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