5 transactions in FCRA plaint

NEW DELHI: 3.5 lakh allegedly received over the sale of a bus.

- Prawesh Lama

254,600 deposited, allegedly inadvertently, in the wrong account.

₹4.9 lakh received from a Swedish organisation to research on "youth migration, food security and sovereignity of the country. 19,600 returned to an alleged donor during Covid. ₹79,200 as alleged food fees.

These alleged five violations were deemed sufficient by the Union home ministry on Thursday to cancel the FCRA certification of Ladakh activist Sonam Wangchuk's non-governmental organisation, Students Educational and Cultural Movement Ladakh(SECMOL) of According to the ministry's order dated September 25, the MHA's Foreigners II division, had first served the NGO a show cause notice on August 20, 2025, followed by a mail on September 10 asking why FCRA should not be cancelled.

SECMOL filed its reply on September 19. The MHA said that SECMOL(referred to as association in the order) was granted registration under Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Act 2010, to accept Foreign Contribution (FC) for undertaking cultural and educational programmes.

The first violation flagged by the ministry was about Wangchuk depositing 3.5 lakh in the FCRA account. To this, SECMOL replied that the amount was sale proceeds of an old bus procured on July 14, 2015 out of FCRA fund and reiterated that the sale proceeds of any asset procured from FCRA funds must be deposited in the FCRA account according to the rules.