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Home & Essentials

Your four walls and everyone who claims a say in them — and the daily goods that cross the doorstep before sunrise.

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The Home & Essentials journey

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Your four walls and everyone who claims a say in them — the society, the landlord, the builder, the goods at your door, and the title-and-tax rules reshaping home ownership now.

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Free legal help — four routes, not one

On this journey

India has a layered free-legal-help system, and most people only ever hear about the last of these. Start at the top — it is the fastest and needs no travel.

  1. Tele-Lawopen ↗

    Advice from a panel lawyer over video or phone, before anything becomes a case.

    Walk into any Common Service Centre and ask the operator to book a Tele-Law slot, or use the Tele-Law app. Free for anyone eligible for legal aid, and low-cost otherwise.

  2. Nyaya Bandhuopen ↗

    A pro-bono advocate who has volunteered their time, matched to your application.

    Register on the Nyaya Bandhu app or portal and describe the problem; a registered volunteer advocate picks it up.

  3. Your DLSA legal aid clinic

    The District Legal Services Authority — the layer that can appoint a lawyer to actually run your case, and the one that runs the Lok Adalat.

    Go to the legal services authority office in your district court complex, or the nearest legal aid clinic, and apply. No fee.

  4. NALSA helpline15100

    The national entry point if you don't know which district authority you fall under.

    Call 15100 — toll-free, and it routes you to your state and district authority.

  5. Vakeels.AIpaidopen ↗

    A legal professional you brief online, for the point at which advice is not enough and someone has to act for you.

    Describe the matter and pick from the professionals listed. Paid — so try the four free routes above first, since for a great many problems they are enough.

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