Supreme Court · 2021 INSC 23 · Decided 13 January 2021
Dipika Jagatram Sahani v. Union of India and ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2021 INSC 23 · [2021] 1 S.C.R. 209
- Case number
- WRIT PETITION (CIVIL) No. 1039/2020
- Decided
- 13 January 2021
- Bench
- ASHOK BHUSHAN, M.R. SHAH, R. SUBHASH REDDY (3-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Case Allowed
- Case type
- Writ / Constitutional
- Acts & sections cited
- Constitution Article 47, 21, 32
Headnote
Anganwadi Centres - Writ petition filed as a Public Interest Litigation questioning the closure of Anganwari centres across the country - Petitioner stated that through Anganwari Centres supplementary nutrition to pregnant women, lactating mothers, adolescent girls and children upto were being provided and prayed for direction to Centre and States for reopening all the Anganwadi Centres in the country and to provide Anganwari services as were provided before the lockdown and in accordance with ss.4 to 7 of National Food Security Act, 2013 - Held: Government has a
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