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.
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.
| ID | State | Category | Finding | Legal relevance | Source | Status |
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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.
Full addresses, phone numbers, email IDs, PAN, Aadhaar/ID numbers, ID proof, signatures, affidavit images, and private declaration pages.
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.