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#SupremeCourt to hear a petition seeking to declare Section 17 of the Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Act, 2010 as unconstitutional as it requires that the primary FCRA account is to be opened exclusively in a branch of SBI New Delhi notified by Centre
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The plea says impugned Section 17 of FCRA, MHA Notification, as well as the public notices, violate Article 14 for bring arbitrary and unreasonable.
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The writ petition states that a blanket requirement of
opening a bank account at one specific branch of the SBI, New Delhi for all organizations receiving FCRA is absurd, irrational, and serves no rational purpose under the FCRA or any other law.
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Justice Sanjiv Khanna recuses. Matter to be posted before another bench.
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