In a significant development underscoring the reach of judicial accessibility, the Supreme Court has extended a vital lifeline to an ailing, low-income single woman from Himachal Pradesh. After facing successive convictions in three lower courts regarding a cheque bounce case, the litigant has successfully secured free legal aid to file a Special Leave Petition (SLP), following the direct intervention of the National Legal Services Committee.

Kusum Sharma, a resident of Sunder Nagar in the Mandi district of Himachal Pradesh, found herself at a legal dead end after the Himachal Pradesh High Court confirmed her conviction. Sharma, a divorcee with no source of income and suffering from health issues, had approached the Supreme Court’s Legal Service Committee seeking aid under the Legal Servi

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