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Govt orders CBI probe, freezes account of company linked with Teesta Setalvad

FP Archives • June 26, 2015, 18:25:31 IST
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Government ordered a CBI into transfer of funds by US-based Ford Foundation to Sabrang Communication and Publishing Pvt Limited (SCPPL), with which social activist Teesta Setalvad is associated, allegedly in violation of rules and froze a bank account of the firm.

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Govt orders CBI probe, freezes account of company linked with Teesta Setalvad

New Delhi: Government ordered a CBI probe into transfer of funds by US-based Ford Foundation to Sabrang Communication and Publishing Pvt Limited (SCPPL), with which social activist Teesta Setalvad is associated, allegedly in violation of rules and froze a bank account of the firm on Friday. Sources said SCPPL was allegedly in violation of rules of Foreign Contributions Regulation Act (FCRA) in accepting a donation of $2.9 lakh from Ford Foundation without getting clearance of the Home Ministry. [caption id=“attachment_2314500” align=“alignleft” width=“380”] ![Teesta Setalvad. AFP](https://images.firstpost.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Teesta_AFP1.jpg) Teesta Setalvad. AFP[/caption] According to the rules, an organisation or a private firm can accept donations from overseas only after it is registered under FCRA. This donation was, therefore, a “serious violation” of FCRA provisions which mandate funding from a foreign source to only those recipients who have FCRA registration, the sources said. A bank account of the firm located in Juhu, Mumbai, has been frozen at the instruction of the Home Ministry, the sources said. Gujarat government had asked the Home Ministry to take action against Ford Foundation, alleging that the US-based organisation was “interfering in internal affairs” of the country and also “abetting communal disharmony” through an NGO run by Setalvad. The fund transfer from Ford Foundation has, at present, to be cleared by a nodal official in the Home Ministry. In April, the government had ordered that funds from Ford Foundation should not be released by any bank to any Indian NGO without mandatory permission from the Home Ministry. Gujarat government and Setalvad are embroiled in legal battles. While she has filed several cases against the state government functionaries, including the then chief minister Narendra Modi in connection with post-Godhra riots of 2002, the state police have filed a case of alleged embezzlement of funds against her. Setalvad had, in her statement earlier, said that Sabrang Trust had co-operated with a Home Ministry team which visited its offices. PTI

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