Overview
- The Supreme Court issued notice to the Union and asked the Centre to respond to the PIL on Monday, June 1, 2026, and listed the case for hearing on July 21, 2026.
- The petition was filed by lawyer and activist Shashank Pandey through advocate Talha Abdul Rahman and challenges widespread failure by authorities to act on recommendations from the Chief and State Commissioners for Persons with Disabilities.
- The plea uses government data from 2022–24 to show that in only about 10–15% of non‑compliance cases did authorities give reasons, which the petition says defeats the RPwD Act’s three‑month compliance rule.
- It says statutory penalty powers (Sections 89 and 93) exist but have not been used, and it documents capacity gaps including no full‑time Chief Commissioner since 2019, a vacant commissioner post, low central budgets, and many state commissions without functional websites or grievance portals.
- If the court orders remedies such as time‑bound compliance guidelines, use of fines, staff appointments, advisory committees and independent audits, petitioners say people with disabilities may gain faster, more usable redress and fewer cases will be forced into regular courts.