PERSONS ENTITLED FOR FREE LEGAL AID

 PERSONS ENTITLED FOR FREE LEGAL AID  

• − A person with an annual income of less than Rs.1,00,000/- 
• − A Woman or a Child 
• − A member of Scheduled Caste or scheduled Tribe. 
• − A victim of trafficking in human beings beggar. 
• − An under trial in custody, including a juvenile. 
• − A person with disability such as suffering from blindness, leprosy loco motive disability, hearing impairment, mental derangement 
• − A victim of mass disaster, ethnic violence, caste atrocity, flood, drought, earthquake or industrial disaster. − An industrial workman. 
• − A person upto the age of 18 years in a protective home or mentally ill person in a psychiatric hospital or psychiatric nursing home. 
• − A transgender whose annual income is less than Rs.2,00,000/- 
• − A senior citizen whose annual income is less than Rs.2,00,000/-

Besides the above categories, free legal services can also be provided

in the under mentioned situations:-

    i. In a test case, the decision of which is likely to effect cases of

numerous other persons belonging to the poor and weaker sections

of the society; or

    ii. To a person in a special case, who, for reasons to be recorded in

writing, is considered otherwise deserving of legal service where the

means test is not satisfied;

    iii. Persons in favour of whom our High Court or the Supreme Court

directs grant of legal service;