Legal Aid

To ensure access to justice for all, the National Legal Services Authority (NALSA) has established regulations aimed at delivering free and competent legal assistance to economically and socially disadvantaged individuals across the country. In line with these guidelines and under the provisions of the Legal Services Authorities Act, 1987, the Punjab State Legal Services Authority offers legal services to the eligible beneficiaries. As per Section 12 of the Act, 1987, the following are the categories who are entitled to Free Legal Services:

• A member of Scheduled Caste or Scheduled Tribe.
• A victim of trafficking in human beings or beggar.
• A woman or a child.
• A person with disability such as suffering from blindness, leprosy, locomotor disability, hearing impairment, or mental incapacity.
• A victim of mass disaster, ethnic violence, caste atrocity, flood, drought, earthquake, or industrial disaster.
• An industrial workman.
• An undertrial in custody, including a juvenile or a mentally ill person in a psychiatric hospital or psychiatric nursing home.
• A person with an annual income of less than Rs. 3,00,000/-.