{"id":259565,"date":"2025-02-27T01:29:06","date_gmt":"2025-02-26T19:59:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=259565"},"modified":"2025-02-27T01:29:06","modified_gmt":"2025-02-26T19:59:06","slug":"govt-spent-over-rs-400-crore-in-10-years-to-contest-court-cases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2025\/02\/27\/govt-spent-over-rs-400-crore-in-10-years-to-contest-court-cases\/","title":{"rendered":"Govt spent over Rs. 400 crore in 10 years to contest court cases"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>NEW DELHI, 26 Feb:<\/strong> The government has spent more than Rs. 400 crore to contest court cases during the past 10 years, official data showed.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The central government&#8217;s Rs. 66 crore expenditure on litigations in the 2023-24 financial year was over Rs .9 crore higher than the previous fiscal.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The amount incurred on litigations has gone up since 2014-15, barring two fiscals when the Covid pandemic was at its peak, according to data shared by the government with the Lok Sabha in response to a question in the ongoing Budget session. In 2014-15, the cost incurred on litigations stood at Rs. 26.64 crore while the expenditure for 2015-16 was Rs. 37.43 crore. Between the 2014-15 and the 2023-24 financial years, the government spent more than Rs. 409 crore on litigations. The government is working on a national litigation policy that seeks to expedite the resolution of pending cases. A draft of the proposed policy will go before the Union Cabinet for a final call.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The policy has been drafted and redrafted for several years, with successive governments deliberating on its contours. (PTI)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI, 26 Feb: The government has spent more than Rs. 400 crore to contest court cases during the past 10 years, official data showed. The central government&#8217;s Rs. 66 crore expenditure on litigations in the 2023-24 financial year was over Rs .9 crore higher than the previous fiscal. The amount incurred on litigations has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-259565","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-state-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259565","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=259565"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259565\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=259565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=259565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=259565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}