If there is no money to fight the case, then how can you get a lawyer for free?
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| If there is no money to fight the case, then how can you get a lawyer for free? |
The Indian Parliament had passed the Legal Services Authorities Act 1987. In this, a provision has been made to provide free legal aid to the poor.
If you want to fight a case to get justice and you do not have money for it, then you do not have to worry. The government will provide you an advocate for free. For this, the Indian Parliament had passed the Legal Services Authority Act 1987. In this, a provision has been made to provide free legal aid to the poor.
Apart from this, the Supreme Court has declared it a fundamental right to get free legal aid. In Hussainara Khatoon vs State of Bihar, the apex court held that the right to free legal aid comes under the right to life enshrined in Article 21 of the Indian Constitution.
Apart from this, it has also been said in Article 39A of the Indian Constitution that the state will make such a system, so that all citizens can get justice. No citizen should be deprived of justice because of financial constraints or any other disqualification. Former Supreme Court Justice Krishna Iyer had propounded a principle that it is the fundamental right of every poor to get free legal aid.
Advocate Kalika Prasad Kala 'Manas' said that the poor get free lawyers not only for fighting criminal cases, but also for fighting civil cases. According to him, if a poor person is fighting a civil case, then there is a provision of 'pauper's suit' in the Civil Procedure Code. The courts have got this power that they can provide an amicus curiae ie 'amicus curie' to a poor person at government expense to fight the case. However, in civil matters, the tradition of giving amicus curiae to poor people at government expense is rarely seen.
Who gets free legal aid
Advocate Kalika Prasad Kala said that the Indian Parliament had passed the Legal Services Authorities Act in the year 1987 to provide free legal aid to the poor. According to Advocate Kala, the people who are given free legal aid are as follows...
1. People belonging to Scheduled Caste or Scheduled Tribe community.
2. Beggars or victims of human trafficking.
3. To women, children and disabled.
4. To the victims of any natural calamity like earthquake, flood and drought etc.
5. To a person who is a victim of riot or caste violence or communal violence.
6. To the victims and workers of any industrial accident.
7. Juveniles and mental patients of Child Improvement Home.
8. To such a person whose annual income is less than 25 thousand.
Contact here to get a free lawyer
If you do not have the money to fight the case, you can ask for a free lawyer. For this, if you are fighting a case in the Supreme Court, then you can contact the National Legal Service Authority or its website i.e. https://nalsa.gov.in/lsams/ . Apart from this, if you want to fight the case in the High Court, then you have to contact the State Legal Service Authority of the state ( https://nalsa.gov.in/state-lsas-websites ) for free legal aid . Apart from this, free legal aid is also given to the poor at the district level. For this, the District Legal Service Authority can be contacted.
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