Plea for implementing integrated help system for women across India not justiciable: SC

The Supreme Court on Thursday said the issue raised in a plea seeking a direction to implement the National Legal Services Authority (NALSA) women integrated help system, which provides a hassle-free access to justice to women survivor of violence, across India was not justiciable.

A bench of Justices Surya Kant and Ujjal Bhuyan observed the issue could be considered by the NALSA on the administrative side.

“These are matters which are not justiciable,” the bench orally told senior advocate Colin Gonsalves, who was appearing for the petitioners.

The apex court was hearing a plea, which sought a direction to implement the NALSA women integrated help system across all states and union territories, said a pilot project was operating in Jammu and Kashmir and Chhattisgarh for a little over last three years.

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