CBI chargesheets two NGOs for fund misuse
The Hindu
Accused of violating FCRA norms, misusing tsunami funds
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has chargesheeted the Good Samaritan Project India (GSPI), the Catholic Reformation Literature Society (CRLS), and four individuals for allegedly violating the provisions of Foreign Contribution Regulation Act (FCRA) and misappropriation of tsunami funds. They have also been accused of criminal breach of trust.
While the GSPI, represented by its chairman K.P. Philip, has been arraigned as the first accused, the CRLS, represented by its chairman Thomas Abraham Kallivayalil, has been named as the second accused. Mr. Philip and Mr. Kallivayalil have been individually arraigned as the third and fourth accused. Jojo Chandy, the treasurer of both the GSPI and the CRLS, is the fifth accused and Malayalam writer Paul Zacharia, the secretary of the society, is the sixth accused.