Law Ministry tele-consultation service now addressing queries related to pandemic, lockdown
NEW DELHI: A Law Ministry tele-consultation service launched to help rural residents get pre-litigation legal advice from a panel of lawyers is now receiving calls from people seeking solutions to problems arising out of the coronavirus pandemic and the lockdown in various parts of the country.
People have been calling various local centres of the tele-law scheme seeking solutions to various issues such as police highhandedness in implementing Covid-appropriate behaviour and discrimination being faced by health workers and their families who are wrongly accused of being carriers of coronavirus.