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LEGAL AID INFORMATION

APPLICATION FOR LEGAL AID OR ADVICE
Any person desiring legal aid or advice may make an application addressed to the Member Secretary/Secretary of the authority / Committee. If the applicant is illiterate or is not in a position to write or fill in the particulars required in the application, the Secretary or an officer of the committee or any legal practitioner, whose name appears on the panel of the Authority or Committee, as the case may be shall gather the necessary particulars from the applicant and prepare the application on his behalf and after reading it out and explaining it to him, obtain his signatures or thumb impression on it. The application of any applicant shall be in a form approved by the State Authority.

CRITERIA FOR PROVIDING FREE LEGAL SERVICES
Section 12 of the Legal Services Authorities Act, 1987 prescribes the criteria for giving legal services to the eligible persons. Sec 12 of the Act reads as under:- “Every person who has to file or defend a case shall be entitled to legal services under this Act, if that person is:-
(a) A member of Scheduled Caste or Scheduled Tribe;
(b) A victim of trafficking in human beings or beggar as referred to in Article 23 of
the Constitution;
(c) A Woman or a Child; .... CLICK TO READ MORE