NLIU students seek to offer legal aid to needy

BHOPAL:

Legal Aid Clinic

(LAC) of NLIU launched the

Saarthi scheme

on Saturday wherein they will provide free legal assistance for people online. This is an initiative so that people would not require to run from pillar to post for legal aid in the times of Covid-19.

LAC's convener Pranjal Agarwal said with this initiative, LAC hopes to help those people to move forward and seek justice who have been locked in their homes without any recourse to a remedy.

"Project Saarthi adopts a three-pronged approach by launching the NLIU-LAC helpline number to provide pro-bono legal aid, mediation and mental health counselling services to people," he said.

He added, "Home is a place where one should feel safe and secure. But sometimes, when the perpetrators of the crime live with you, it becomes difficult to report it. This is primarily for the victims of domestic violence. Our first step would be to make them aware of their rights and the legal provisions, which protect them."

About the working of Saarthi another

member

of LAC said, "We will connect the needy to qualified advocates who will advise them on the proper course of action. Lastly, we also offer mediation as an alternative, which has proved to be useful in such cases."

LAC team members are Pranjal Agarwal (convener),

Aditya Goyal

(co-convener),

Prashasti Singh

(secretary), Shiuli Mandloi (joint secretary) and

Parth Tyagi

(treasurer).


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