Case 01 • Disaster Governance • Public Record

The Empty Vault

NDMA disaster-fund accountability record examining pleaded fund trails, utilisation certificates, statutory duties, disaster chronology, and reliefs in W.P.(Crl.) No. 394/2025.

₹77,000+ crAlleged unutilised/diverted disaster funds
50,000+Pending UCs pleaded across records
2005–2025Pattern period in petition
12 statesState/event evidence cards included
Art. 21Right-to-life constitutional anchor

Can repeated State failure to prevent foreseeable disasters, dilute statutory accountability, and misuse disaster funds remain protected as “policy discretion” when life, safety, and equality rights are affected?

The case frames recurring floods, bridge collapses, dam/floodplain mismanagement, UC pendency, relief misuse, and scientific-expertise gaps as a continuing constitutional tort under Articles 14 and 21.

State-by-state evidence

Filter the public evidence archive by state or risk category. Each card maps the pleaded record to audit findings, legal hooks, impact, relief, and source references.

Evidence ledger

A searchable audit-style index with state, category, finding, legal relevance, source pages, and publication status.

IDStateCategoryFindingLegal relevanceSourceStatus

Disaster-linked chronology

The pleaded timeline converts scattered events into a structured constitutional-breach sequence.

Legal framework

The legal hooks are displayed as cards so users can understand how each evidence item maps to constitutional, statutory, criminal, audit, and election-law duties.

Reliefs / prayers

The requested remedies are presented as a court-facing checklist, not as a long unstructured paragraph.

    Redaction & publication rules

    This is the clean public version. Keep private filing data out of the website and source PDF.

    Removed from public display
    Full addresses, phone numbers, email IDs, PAN, Aadhaar/ID numbers, ID proof, signatures, affidavit images, and private declaration pages.
    Kept in public display
    Case title, court, constitutional questions, state evidence, audit findings, statutory hooks, disaster chronology, prayers, and annexure/page references.

    Source Extracts

    Public-facing excerpts are grouped by record type, source position, and evidentiary role. Full text remains available inside each extract panel for verification.

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